Redneck

Origin

Compound of red + neck

Full definition of redneck

Noun

1. (slang, pejorative) An uneducated, unsophisticated, or poor caucasian person, typically used to describe residents (of any genderCountry Music Lyrics New Country Tunes) of the rural Southern US.
2. (slang) The nickname given to miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921. West Virginia Division of Culture and History
3. (UK, archaic) The nickname given to Roman Catholics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Synonyms

• cracker
• peckerwood
• white trash

Derived terms

• redneckish
• redneckism
• rednecky