How to Use hick in a Sentence

hick

noun
  • We felt like a bunch of hicks when we went to the city for the first time.
  • Trump can always count on these two Alabama hicks to lick his clown boots.
    — J.d. Crowe | [email protected], al, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Hicks is heard starting to cry in the background as the white woman continues on her racist rant.
    — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 24 May 2017
  • Keep hearing about wentz injury recovery but what about Peters and hicks?
    — Zach Berman, Philly.com, 6 June 2018
  • In this movie, Black and Brown people work with one another and with white folk who are not murderous hicks.
    — Eisa Nefertari Ulen, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Apr. 2024
  • While waiting to be treated, Lauren complains of Braxton hicks.
    — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 10 May 2024
  • The governor of Tennessee could not come off as more of a gutless, spineless, hapless, dim-witted hick, by the way.
    — Ethan Renner, baltimoresun.com, 31 May 2017
  • There was also a lovely moment of hillbilly elegizing, as one of the pundits put on his best hick costume to get in with the little people.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 July 2021
  • So a bunch of hicks from Topeka were left up to our own devices of going down to Robert Hall and finding something that might be kind of cool.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2026
  • How dare those Texas hicks reject the political controls over building that zoning laws represent.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
  • The shorts featured himself and Nathan Dales as hicks hanging out at the produce stand and pontificating about their problems in quick jump cuts.
    — Amber Dowling, Variety, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Surely the organization is shocked to learn the dumb hicks in the hunting public even HAVE computers.
    — Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 24 Aug. 2017
  • The series takes place in the fictional town of Letterkenny, Ontario, and follows its residents, who belong to one of three groups — the hicks, the skids, or the hockey players.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Brilliant and often hilarious underneath his hick persona, this North Carolinian continues to distill rock-and-roll down to its joyous essence.
    — Nick Cristiano, Philly.com, 7 Dec. 2017
  • Which is to say, this isn’t the story of a greedy, materialistic man who suffers a crisis of conscience while trying to pry a priceless treasure away from an uneducated hick who doesn’t know any better.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 29 Oct. 2025
  • For all of his self-ridicule about being an uneducated hick, Bird would prove to have the best grasp of the reporter-player relationship of all the Celtics players during my time covering the team.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Nov. 2021
  • As written by Cain and portrayed by Hoesktra, Reeves is a Texas hick but a quick learner; tense and explosive; profane yet disciplined; disordered but aware of right and wrong.
    — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Michael Stulhbarg, cast against type as a grinning hick in overalls, and Jessica Harper, tersely compelling as Maren’s adoptive grandmother.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Keeso, the driving force of the series, plays Wayne, the toughest (but also, weirdly, the nicest) guy in Letterkenny, who is a hick and runs a produce stand outside of the family farm, which is basically just a setup for sitting around and talking.
    — Tim Goodman, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 July 2018
  • The images of people gathering on Florida beaches conjure the dynamics of the Florida Man meme, which delights in the broad-brush painting of Floridians as criminally stupid hicks.
    — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 11 May 2020
  • No one knew how many difficulties existed in the fictional town of Letterkenny when the show revolving around small-town hicks, hockey players and skids launched on Super Bowl Sunday 2016.
    — Amber Dowling, Variety, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Norm Macdonald, at his best, was a divinely hilarious, brave and absurd anomaly — a backwoods Canadian hick with the phrasing of a poet, a mad bomber and destroyer of worlds who was, simultaneously, a principled and loyal friend.
    — Conan O'Brien, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022

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