Usually means: Rural, working-class, Southern US resident.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word redneck:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. redneck: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. redneck: Merriam-Webster
  3. redneck: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. redneck: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. redneck: Collins English Dictionary
  6. redneck: Vocabulary.com
  7. Redneck, redneck: Wordnik
  8. redneck: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. redneck: Wiktionary
  10. redneck: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. redneck: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. redneck: Dictionary.com
  13. redneck: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. redneck: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Redneck (comics), Redneck (disambiguation), Redneck (film), Redneck (song), Redneck (stereotype), Redneck: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. redneck: Rhymezone
  17. redneck: FreeDictionary.org
  18. redneck: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. redneck: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. redneck: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. redneck: Encyclopedia

Slang (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Redneck (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. redneck, redneck: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. redneck: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  5. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. REDNECK(the real definition), The Redneck: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See rednecked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (slang, usually derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A poor, rural, usually white, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and Northeast, especially one whose beliefs are seen as unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being bigoted.
noun:  (historical, slang, US) Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.
noun:  (historical, slang, US) A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.
noun:  (UK, archaic, 19th and 20th centuries, religious slur) A Roman Catholic.

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