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Princeton's WordNet

  1. redneck, crackernoun

    a poor White person in the southern United States

Wiktionary

  1. rednecknoun

    An uneducated, unsophisticated, or poor white person, typically used to describe residents (of either gender) of the rural Southern US.

  2. rednecknoun

    The nickname given to miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.

  3. Etymology: Compound of (referring to the red neckerchiefs worn by unionized workers during the mine wars in West Virginia)

Wikipedia

  1. Redneck

    Redneck is a derogatory term chiefly, but not exclusively, applied to white Americans perceived to be crass and unsophisticated, closely associated with rural whites of the Southern United States.Its meaning possibly stems from the sunburn found on farmers' necks dating back to the late 19th century. Its modern usage is similar in meaning to cracker (especially regarding Texas, Georgia, and Florida), hillbilly (especially regarding Appalachia and the Ozarks), and white trash (but without the last term's suggestions of immorality). In Britain, the Cambridge Dictionary definition states: "A poor, white person without education, esp. one living in the countryside in the southern US, who is believed to have prejudiced ideas and beliefs. This word is usually considered offensive." People from the white South sometimes jocularly call themselves "rednecks" as insider humor.By the 1970s, the term had become offensive slang, its meaning expanded to include racism, loutishness, and opposition to modern ways.Patrick Huber, in his monograph A Short History of Redneck: The Fashioning of a Southern White Masculine Identity, emphasized the theme of masculinity in the 20th-century expansion of the term, noting, "The redneck has been stereotyped in the media and popular culture as a poor, dirty, uneducated, and racist Southern white man."

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  1. redneck

    A redneck is a slang term typically used to refer to a person, usually of rural backgrounds in the United States, who is perceived as having a distinct culture, customs, and dialect. Rednecks are often associated with rural areas, conservative values, and traditional lifestyles, and they are often characterized by their working-class or lower socioeconomic status. The term can carry both positive and negative connotations, depending on the context and the perspective of the speaker.

Wikidata

  1. Redneck

    Redneck is a derogatory slang term used in reference to poor, uneducated white farmers, especially from the southern United States. It is similar in meaning to cracker, hillbilly, and white trash. In recent decades, the term has expanded its meaning to refer to bigoted, loutish reactionaries who are opposed to "modern ways", and has often been used to attack white conservatives. The term is used broadly to degrade working class and rural whites that are perceived by urban progressives to be insufficiently liberal. At the same time, some Southern whites have reclaimed the word, using it with pride and defiance as a self-identifier.

Rap Dictionary

  1. rednecknoun

    Farmer, Cracker, Honky, Trailer Trash.

Editors Contribution

  1. REDNECK

    Family oriented poor white trash growing up poor laborer farmer not much property has a blast with what I have barefoot running dirt Claud throwing heathens.


    Submitted by rinat on April 20, 2020  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of RedNeck in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of RedNeck in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of RedNeck in a Sentence

  1. Famer Steve Austin:

    Redneck Island : Battle at the Lake.

  2. Kevin Kisner:

    I started to see the ball actually rolling as it looks like it's supposed to do instead of praying the wind doesn't hit it, so it was a more enjoyable back nine, i'll probably be the same old redneck, pretty aggressive guy I normally am. I'm going to try and make birdie on every hole.

  3. Andrew Buckley:

    Most times these crocs are being relocated as they have clashed with humans/livestock and so if good people don’t relocate them, some redneck will just shoot it.

  4. Vernon Burton:

    Black Americans in the former Confederacy lived in a terroristic society at least until 1965, when the Voting Rights Act was signed into law, but then you also had the Redneck Shop, which glorified hate and showed what Black Americans had to deal with in rural areas in the'90s and on.

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