Usually means: Rural dweller, often stereotypically unsophisticated.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word hillbilly:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. hillbilly: Merriam-Webster
  2. hillbilly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hillbilly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hillbilly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hillbilly: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hillbilly, hillbilly: Wordnik
  7. hillbilly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hillbilly: Wiktionary
  9. hillbilly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hillbilly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hillbilly: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hillbilly: Dictionary.com
  13. hillbilly: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hillbilly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hillbilly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. hillbilly: Rhymezone
  17. hillbilly: FreeDictionary.org
  18. hillbilly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Hillbilly: The Word Detective
  20. hillbilly: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. hillbilly: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  22. hillbilly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hillbilly (offensive), Hillbilly (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. hillbilly: The Folk File
  3. Hillbilly: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See hillbillies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (often derogatory) Someone who is from the hills; especially from a rural area, with a connotation of a lack of refinement or sophistication.
noun:  (ethnic slur) A white person from the rural southern part of the United States, especially the Southeastern states.
verb:  To emphasize one's rural or humble upbringing; to use unsophisticated charm.
verb:  To portray or act as an uneducated and unsophisticated fool.
verb:  To perform or experience stereotypically hillbilly-like actions.

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