Usually means: Rural resident, often stereotypically unsophisticated.
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  1. hick: Merriam-Webster
  2. hick: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hick: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hick: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hick: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hick, hick: Wordnik
  7. hick: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hick, hick: Wiktionary
  9. hick: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hick: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hick: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hick: Dictionary.com
  13. hick: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hick: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hick (disambiguation), Hick (film), Hick: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. hick: Rhymezone
  17. hick: FreeDictionary.org
  18. hick: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Hick: The Word Detective
  20. hick: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. hick: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. hick: Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hick (offensive), Hick (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. hick, hick, hick: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. hick: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

(Note: See hickish as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (derogatory) An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person.
verb:  To hiccup.
noun:  (rare today) A diminutive of the male given name Richard.
noun:  A surname originating as a patronymic.

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