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Rareredneck
The correct spelling is redneck.
How to pronounce redneck
/ˈɹɛdnɛk/
nounIPA: /ˈɹɛdnɛk/
Say it like: Red-nek
The correct spelling is redneck. A poor, rural, usually white and male, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and northeast, especially one who is unsophisticated and backward; sometime…
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Definition
noun
- 1.A poor, rural, usually white and male, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and northeast, especially one who is unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being bigoted.
- 2.Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.
- 3.A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.
- 4.(19th and 20th centuries) A Roman Catholic.
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