(n.) One accustomed to beat about, or travel through, bushes.
(n.) A guerrilla; a marauding assassin; one who pretends to be a peaceful citizen, but secretly harasses a hostile force or its sympathizers.
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Hillbilly
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Example Sentences:
(1) At one point he teases us with the intro to 'When You Were Mine' at another he wittily picks out the theme to The Beverly Hillbillies .
(2) Get a poor family from the rural south and relocate them in a Beverly Hills mansion, complete with staff and pool, and then film it as part of a reality series called the Real Beverly Hillbillies.
(3) This is nothing but a hillbilly operation, run by a hillbilly miner with hillbilly regulators,” O’Brien said.
(4) Johnnie & Jack took an even more innovative step when they decided, in 1954, to adapt songs from the R&B chart: first the Four Knights' (Oh Baby Mine) I Get So Lonely, which they took to No 1 in the country chart, then the Spaniels' Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight, a remarkable mélange of strident hillbilly harmony, steel guitar and a booming bass part, sung by Culley Holt from what would become Elvis Presley's favourite backing group, the Jordanaires.
(5) elvis the hillbilly brought rhythm to the white race, blues to pop, and rock'n'roll to where ever rock'n'roll is.
(6) There, the heroes are working-class hillbillies who failed in education but had what it takes intelligence-wise to survive when the shit comes down.” Poor viewing figures resulted in Survivors being cancelled after two series, while The Walking Dead’s zombie apocalypse drama is well into its sixth season and more topical than ever.
(7) Reality Alongside Duck Dynasty and Hillbilly Handfishin', Honey Boo Boo is one of a rash of structured reality shows currently taking America by storm.
(8) As for radio: the choice is between religious programmes, hillbilly music, other types of pop music and National Public Radio.
(9) Appalachia has long been accustomed to high levels of addiction to tobacco, alcohol and meths, and in the past decade it has similarly embraced “Hillbilly Heroin” as opioid painkillers have come to be known locally.
(10) Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian Leading the blight is a powerful and highly addictive opioid painkiller, OxyContin, known locally as “hillbilly heroin”.
(11) Frontier communities steeped in the myth of self-reliance are now blighted by addiction to opioids – “hillbilly heroin” to those who use them.
(12) The insatiable desire for Hillbilly Heroin continues unabated.
(13) And Jebediah means you’re just a complete cracker running a moonshine still in Dalton, Georgia.” Even before Jeb Bush , the name comes freighted with assumptions, like that you’re a hillbilly, or from a super religious family.
(14) It was only a few years earlier, in 2005, when Trump was gamely dressing up as a hillbilly and singing Green Acres at the Emmy awards show .
(15) Like its northern counterparts, Cincinnati's slums were once middle-class neighbourhoods into which white Appalachian hillbillies moved first, then sharecroppers from the plantations in the great migration north.
(16) She combines fantastic songwriting with a sharp wit (describing her family as “horny hillbillies” from the Pyramid stage).
(17) This was the iconography.” By the time Johnson arrived a different image had taken hold – that of the anti-modern, moonshine swilling, gun toting, backwards “hillbilly”.
(18) Another sensitive who moved to Green Bank was reported to have flown into a rage at the library, denouncing the “dumb hillbillies”.
(19) The "hillbillies" turned out to be a campaign group from Kentucky who have coordinated a nationwide protest against the programme, claiming that it demeans poor southerners.
(20) The stereotype was perpetuated on television by a popular 1960s comedy show, The Beverly Hillbillies, in which unsophisticated mountain folk find oil on their land, get rich and move with their guns, bibles and Confederate sympathies to live among California’s millionaires.