From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishhickhick /hɪk/ noun [countable] American English informalINSULTsomeone who lives in the countryside, and is thought to be uneducated or stupid —hick adjective
hick townsExamples from the Corpushick• My companions start talking in Arabic again and I have the depressing sense of being a hicktourist fallen among realtravellers.• Just a hicktown, I guess.• Though he found it convenient to pretend otherwise, the man was no hick care-taker.• You were quite good, playing up to the hicks.• The whole hickaspect and the nasty women would pass into nothingness as they had passed into silence.Originhick(1500-1600)Hick, a man's name, from Richard
