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redneck

The correct spelling is redneck.

How to pronounce redneck

/ˈɹɛdnɛk/
noun

IPA: /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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noun

  1. 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. 2.Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.
  3. 3.A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.
  4. 4.(19th and 20th centuries) A Roman Catholic.

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