hillbilly

Word family

hill·bil·ly /ˈhɪlbɪli/ noun (plural hillbillies) [countableC]

American EnglishAmECOUNTRYSIDEINSULT an insulting word meaning an uneducated poor person who lives in the mountains 山里人，乡巴佬〔侮辱性用语〕

Examples from the Corpus

hillbilly• If it was necessary, I could do hillbilly stuff.• This is not to say, however, that the ramp is strictly hillbilly food.• Berry adapted Johnson's self-taught hillbilly style to his guitar and emerged as frontman of the renamed Chuck Berry Trio.• From sultry crooners to hillbilly boogie, Case's voice always sounds at home in her material.• One good thing is that the extended family of toothless hillbillies who used to live down the street moved away.• Beyond that, it promises to provide a weekly primer on dopey and unctuous behavior among upscale hillbillies who dress well.• And Samuel Turner Stevens, on fretless banjo, demonstrates the ties between white hillbilly music and rural blues.

Origin hillbilly

(1900-2000) hill + Billy, a man's name, from William

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TOEFL BNC: 0 COCA: 25706

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