redneck
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɹɛdnɛk/
redneck (plural rednecks)
- (slang, pejorative) A poor, rural, usually white and male, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and northeast, especially one who is unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being bigoted.
- (historical, slang, US) Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.
- (historical, slang, US) A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.
- (UK, archaic, 19th and 20th centuries) A Roman Catholic.
- bogan (Australia), cracker, hick, hillbilly, peckerwood, white trash
- French: beauf, baraki (Belgium)
- German: Prolet, Proll
- Portuguese: caipira
- Russian: дереве́нщина
- Spanish: paleto
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