[
UK
/hˈɪlbɪlˌi/
]
[ US /ˈhɪɫbɪɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈhɪɫbɪɫi/ ]
NOUN
- a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person
How To Use hillbilly In A Sentence
- It's got the whole indie-hillbilly thing going, with lots of mandolins and footstomping and fuzzy guitars etc but it's all just a little flat.
- ‘I want to go back to when things were so simple’ sings Weiss in a high-pitched hillbilly squeal on ‘Piggly Wiggly’.
- Stuart began offering what he called hillbilly rock,'' an amalgam of energized honky-tonk and rock 'n' roll that he rode well into the '90s. Boston.com Top Stories
- It is a potent time-release medication for relief of moderate to severe pain, known as hillbilly heroin because of black-market popularity in some rural areas.
- Boing Boing reader/commenter catastrophegirl, commenting in a thread about an enraged hillbilly user of flavored chewing tobacco, points to her Flickr photoset documenting her quest to make DIY kretek (clove cigarettes). Boing Boing
- When Woody Guthrie was singing hillbilly songs on a little Los Angeles radio station in the late 1930s, he used to mail out a small mimeographed songbook to listeners who wanted the words to his songs.
- Fuller is a stout purist when it comes to his hillbilly music, and has some serious rules before you can climb up on his stage.
- At times that means straighter pop tinted by shades of folk, country and indie rock and at other times, screaming hillbilly thrash.
- New Discovery A hillbilly was visiting the big city for the first time.
- Here's what the hillbilly rocker had to say about his little monster.