Usually means: Rural, often unsophisticated country dwellers.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hicks, hicks: Merriam-Webster
  2. hicks: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hicks: Vocabulary.com
  4. Hick's, Hicks, hicks: Wordnik
  5. hicks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Hicks, hicks: Wiktionary
  7. Hicks: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. hicks: Dictionary.com
  9. hicks: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Hicks (disambiguation), Hicks (surname), Hicks: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Hicks: Rhymezone
  12. Hicks: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Hicks: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hicks: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hicks: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Hicks: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Hicks)

▸ noun:  A surname originating as a patronymic derived from Hick, a medieval diminutive of Richard.
▸ noun:  A placename:
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Vernon Parish, Louisiana, United States.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Warren County, Ohio, United States.

Similar:
chawbacon, rube, bumpkin, yokel, yahoo, rustic, rural, hayseed, provincial, unsophisticated, more...

Opposite:
urbanites, cosmopolitans, city dwellers

Types:
rednecks, hillbillies, boggers, white trash, trailer trash, poor white people, more...

Phrases:
John Hicks, granville hicks, Edward Hicks, Braxton Hicks, Elias Hicks, more...

Adjectives:
braxton, old, poor, late, young, glanville, little, kaldor, british, dumb, former



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Similar:
chawbacon, rube, bumpkin, yokel, yahoo, rustic, rural, hayseed, provincial, unsophisticated, more...

Opposite:
urbanites, cosmopolitans, city dwellers

Types:
rednecks, hillbillies, boggers, white trash, trailer trash, poor white people, more...

Phrases:
John Hicks, granville hicks, Edward Hicks, Braxton Hicks, Elias Hicks, David Hicks, william hicks, thomas hicks, hicks neutral, henry hicks, captain hicks, jack hicks, wilson hicks, sheila hicks, Catherine Hicks, more...

Adjectives:
braxton, old, poor, late, young, glanville, little, kaldor, british, dumb, former



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