redneck🔊

(slang, usually derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A poor, rural, usually white, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and Northeast, especially one whose beliefs are seen as unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being bigoted.

(historical, slang, US) Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.

(historical, slang, US) A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.

(UK, archaic, 19th and 20th centuries, religious slur) A Roman Catholic.