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A redneck is slang and a derogatory term for a poor white person, often who lives in the rural Southern United States and who often has conservative or bigoted attitudes. (noun)

An example of a redneck is a poor, uneducated white person in the South who engages in prejudiced behavior.

See redneck in Webster's New World College Dictionary

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noun

Slang a poor, white, rural Southerner, often, specif., one regarded as ignorant, bigoted, violent, etc.: often a derogatory term

See redneck in American Heritage Dictionary 4

(rĕdˈnĕkˌ)

noun
Offensive Slang

Used as a disparaging term for a member of the white rural laboring class, especially in the southern United States.
A white person regarded as having a provincial, conservative, often bigoted attitude.

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