redneck
/ˈɹɛdnɛk/ · noun
Meaning
- 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.
- Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.
- A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.
- (19th and 20th centuries) A Roman Catholic.
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