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Definition of Redneck

1. Noun. A poor White person in the southern United States.

Definition of Redneck

1. Noun. (slang) An uneducated, unsophisticated, or poor white person, typically used to describe residents (of either gender[ Country Music Lyrics New Country Tunes]) of the rural Southern US. ¹

2. Noun. (slang) The nickname given to miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921. [ West Virginia Division of Culture and History] ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Redneck

1. a white, rural labourer of the Southern United States [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Redneck

Literary usage of Redneck

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways by Jamie Jensen (2006)
"The Dublin area hosts an increasingly popular, very- tongue-in-cheek annual celebration of rural America: the redneck Games. Started by local radio DJ Mac ..."

2. Memorials Journal and Botanical Correspondence by Charles Cardale Babington (1897)
"We then crossed the country, finding nothing, to redneck Heath, where we got a great quantity of Apera interrupta, especially in a pit at about half- a-mile ..."

3. Romantic Weekends in Virginia, Washington DC and Maryland by Norman Renouf, Norman Renove, Kathy Renouf (1999)
"Entrées at The Frog and redneck range from $17 to as much as $26.50 (for jumbo lump crabcakes). You won't go away hungry, as the portions here are very ..."

4. Romantic Weekends in Virginia, Washington DC and Maryland by Norman Renouf, Norman Renove, Kathy Renouf (1999)
"Entrees at The Frog and redneck range from $17 to as much as $26.50 (for jumbo lump crabcakes). You won't go away hungry, as the portions here are very ..."

5. Journal of the Northamptonshire Natural History Society and Field Club (1883)
"... Spotted Crake, redneck Grebe, Little Bittern, White-fronted Goose, Lesser Tern, and others. The ornithologist has in the county an opportunity of making ..."

6. Impressions of South Africa by James Bryce Bryce (1900)
"Another common Boer name for an Englishman is "redneck," drawn from the fact that the back of an Englishman's neck is often burnt red by the sun. ..."

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