Associations to the word «Redneck»

Wiktionary

REDNECK, noun. (slang) (pejorative) A poor, rural, white Southern person (of either gender); especially, one who is regarded as rowdy, arrogant, egotistical, a braggart, etc.
REDNECK, noun. (slang) The nickname given to miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.
REDNECK, noun. (UK) (archaic) The nickname given to Roman Catholics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Dictionary definition

REDNECK, noun. A poor White person in the southern United States.

Wise words

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Stephen King