(n.) A fresh-water tortoise (Pseudemus concinna) of Florida.
(n.) The box tortoise.
Example Sentences:
(1) When you ask me what it symbolizes, it symbolizes, in a personal way, the courage and the valor of my ancestors, who in their time did what they believed was the right thing to do.” Jones, 73, who runs a chain of “Cooter’s Place” outlets in the south that sell Dukes memorabilia including Confederate flag license plates , said the flag had a place in southern culture that had become detached from its history as a battle flag – and from the question of race and racism.
(2) But he is better known as the actor who played the mechanic Cooter in the 1980s hit television show The Dukes of Hazzard .
Redneck
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) On 5th Gear, from 2007, he talked about internet nerds reinventing themselves through social media, and offered an intentionally redneck perspective on the battle of the sexes in the deliberately gauche I'm Still a Guy.
(2) The Trump vote contained rednecks and inhabitants of the rust belt, just as south Wales and Sunderland turned out for Brexit – but in neither case was that the whole story.
(3) The view was that homophobic rednecks walked into a bar and saw an obviously gay man with money and targeted him and beat him to death for that reason,” says Jimenez.
(4) Old ham boxing writers were happy to believe him, and so were America’s rightwing rednecks.
(5) In the pantheon of American poets, Woody belongs midway between Walt Whitman and Bob Dylan , but it is his roots in Oklahoma that give his work an authentic voice, ringing out from the dusty midwestern plains: a welcome antidote to the easy jibe that, if you're poor and white in this part of the world, you're bound to be a redneck.
(6) To which I reply: "You're absolutely right, sit down and shut up, Tagg, you embarrassingly privileged, emotionally incontinent redneck."
(7) There seemed to be a new generation of new organisers within the community who were very opposed to the old, middle-aged, white, slightly redneck unions that one associated with the States and there seemed to be a genuinely radical place for organised labour which was community-based.'
(8) We do not have that "redneck left", of blue-collar scaffolders who smoke weed and listen to Springsteen and even the Grateful Dead.
(9) Duke’s significance wasn’t even lost on the basketball courts at my southern high school – hardly the most political of places – where a redneck spotted out of his usual camouflage pants and in khakis on class picture day might get called “David Duke”.
(10) Rural culture is as important as any other culture and is often thought of as backwards, dumb and redneck.
(11) Three times more viewers watch the cable reality show Duck Dynasty about camouflage-wearing, duck-hunting rednecks, than NBC's current evening comedy, Parks & Recreation .
(12) The first half is an intriguing story of revenge that plays out in the terrifyingly remote Appalachian kingdom of a redneck monster portrayed by Woody Harrelson.
(13) It's the star attraction of Georgia's beloved Redneck Games , alongside events such as the Armpit Serenade and Bobbin' For Pigs' Feet.
(14) And while metropolitan hipsters sneer at dweebs, rednecks and "bros" donning UV facepaint and throwing shapes at commercial festivals, Moore is overjoyed to witness their thrill of discovery.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gun owners on why they oppose background checks I heard a lot of suggestions: don’t treat us like rednecks.
(16) It was as if a nationwide drug legalisation policy had been written by a teenager, a gangster, a redneck trucker and a Chinese chemist.
(17) Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are rednecks, and Twain's language depends on verisimilitude for its comedy.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The 70s were bracketed by well-deserved Oscars in 71 and 78 (for Klute and Coming Home); by long-term alienation from her father over her political activities (and he was the consummate liberal, so she must have really bugged him) and their reconciliation on the set of On Golden Pond; by the distance between Tout Va Bien, for Godard in 1972, and The Jane Fonda Workout, which drove the VCR revolution; and between husband No 2, Chicago Seven member Tom Hayden, and his hi-tech redneck successor Turner.
(19) Bush, on the other hand, wants that kind of winking recognition from rednecks –Civil War name affinity always plays well with the “states’ rights!” crowd.
(20) Out of the Furnace Redneck kingdom … Out of the Furnace.