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hicks

noun

Definition of hicks

plural of hick

as in bumpkins

an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country city dwellers who looked down on their cousins from northern Maine as hicks

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Recent Examples of hicks So a bunch of hicks from Topeka were left up to our own devices of going down to Robert Hall and finding something that might be kind of cool. — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2026

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Noun

Simply put, the small-town bumpkins from North Florida who support this idea should be made to pay for it.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 Feb. 2026

Definition of bumpkins

Noun

The video sweeps around a reveling fiefdom, showing everyone from peasants to dukes partying and getting it on.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
The violence that has been simmering with the Ploughman now erupts into a revolution joined by thousands and thousands of peasants.

— Pete Hammond, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of peasants

Noun

The good news is that this future of an AI takeover is looking increasingly unlikely, at least at the industry’s current pace, a fact which is now dawning on some of the biggest rubes and dupes in the corporate world.

— Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 8 July 2026
All those unsuspecting rubes with no idea what’s about to hit them.

— Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 18 Mar. 2026

Definition of rubes

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Duke Slater, pal of Jim Nabors’ hayseed Gomer Pyle on the ’60s sitcom of that name, died of natural causes today at UCLA Hospital in Los Angeles.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 12 June 2026
Baby Billy’s first full-frontal scene is more a testament to Walton Goggins’s incredible hayseed bravado in the rule.

— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2025

Definition of hayseed

Noun

During summer, the Pinzolo cable car climbs to Doss del Sabion at 2,100 metres, where panoramic views stretch across the Brenta range and an extensive network of walking trails caters for everyone from casual hikers to experienced mountaineers.

— Vicki Power, TheWeek, 14 Sep. 2026
At that time, it was called Hostellerie des Sherpas and functioned as a lodge for Everest mountaineers.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Sep. 2026

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