How to Use hick in a Sentence

hick

noun
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  • We felt like a bunch of hicks when we went to the city for the first time.
  • Hicks ended up at third with his first triple of the season.
    — Mike Malloy, OrlandoSentinel.com, 25 June 2017
  • A new name came with the move, but young Chuck Heston always thought of himself as a hick kid.
    — Douglass K. Daniel, Orange County Register, 25 May 2017
  • 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
  • Trump can always count on these two Alabama hicks to lick his clown boots.
    — J.d. Crowe | Jdcrowe@al.com, al, 18 Oct. 2019
  • T hick muscles and veins rippled under his tan, hairless skin, and there was a tense smirk on his face.
    — Abigail Jones, Newsweek, 19 July 2017
  • The news portrays anybody who supports Jacob or us as being these hicks. ...
    — Max Londberg, kansascity.com, 24 June 2017
  • 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
  • Played with locked jaw and a terrible haircut by Jared Keeso, the show’s co-creator and writer, Wayne is king of the hicks, a courteous ladykiller in stonewashed jeans.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Keep hearing about wentz injury recovery but what about Peters and hicks?
    — Zach Berman, Philly.com, 6 June 2018
  • Surely the organization is shocked to learn the dumb hicks in the hunting public even HAVE computers.
    — Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 24 Aug. 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
  • His style is more rooted in George Jones than the bro-country and hick-hop claptrap that until recently dominated the airwaves.
    — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • How dare those Texas hicks reject the political controls over building that zoning laws represent.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • Shakespeare’s airiest souffle does put one in mind of all those half-hours of zaniness that once dominated prime time: clueless hicks living in Beverly Hills and horses that talk and mischievous uncles from Mars.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Danes today tend to think of Swedes as uptight metrosexuals; Swedes see their neighbors across the Oresund as jaywalking, pot-smoking anarchists; and both agree that Norwegians are dull, backwoods hicks with an annoying amount of oil wealth.
    — Lisa Abend, New York Times, 12 July 2017
  • 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
  • We felt like a bunch of hicks when we went to the city for the first time.
  • Hicks ended up at third with his first triple of the season.
    — Mike Malloy, OrlandoSentinel.com, 25 June 2017
  • A new name came with the move, but young Chuck Heston always thought of himself as a hick kid.
    — Douglass K. Daniel, Orange County Register, 25 May 2017
  • 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
  • Trump can always count on these two Alabama hicks to lick his clown boots.
    — J.d. Crowe | Jdcrowe@al.com, al, 18 Oct. 2019
  • T hick muscles and veins rippled under his tan, hairless skin, and there was a tense smirk on his face.
    — Abigail Jones, Newsweek, 19 July 2017
  • The news portrays anybody who supports Jacob or us as being these hicks. ...
    — Max Londberg, kansascity.com, 24 June 2017

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