What's the difference between hick and hillbilly?

Hick


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Example Sentences:

  • (1) 5.13pm BST "As I remember September 11, 2012, it was a routine day at our embassy," Hicks begins.
  • (2) "We began planning to evacuate, and took 55 people to the annexe," said Hicks.
  • (3) During Braxton Hicks' contractions the PI in the recorded vessels did not change.
  • (4) Shorten said while Hicks was “foolish to get caught up in the Afghanistan conflict” the court decision showed an injustice.
  • (5) "In addition, Chris wanted to make a symbolic gesture to the people of Benghazi," Hicks says.
  • (6) Hicks's lawyers had argued their client could not be sued under Australia's criminal profit law because the conditions at Guantanamo amounted to duress.
  • (7) "There was the problem with the former owners [Tom Hicks and George Gillett] and there was the fact that Kenny was so popular, but the job went to me.
  • (8) Hicks says he discussed "mobilizing a Tripoli response team."
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hick's team first identified the existence of the Bili chimps in 2007 but their new survey, published this week in the journal Biological Conservation , reveals a vast, thriving mega-culture.
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  • (11) "The musicians that made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years were rrreal fucking high on drugs," posted another, who use six separate payments to reference comic Bill Hicks .
  • (12) Hicks attempted to confront the Australian attorney general, George Brandis, at a human rights event in Sydney in December, saying he was tortured at Guantánamo Bay “in the full knowledge of your party”.
  • (13) Outside the court, dozens of fans cheered, chanted slogans against Hicks and Gillett and serenaded the three board members with the a chorus of "You'll Never Walk Alone."
  • (14) We have demonstrated that both recombinant and purified IL-2 exert a direct effect on quiescent human microvascular endothelial cells in vitro, causing the cells to enter the cell cycle and proliferate (Hicks et al., 1989).
  • (15) 5.19pm BST Hicks describes a frantic round of phone calls to the Libyan government and military for intervention.
  • (16) Keith Oliver, a lawyer at the duo's solicitors Peter & Peter, said he was consulting with Hicks and Gillett on their next steps.
  • (17) The bank is seeking a ruling that Hicks and Gillett breached a contract signed when they refinanced in April, giving Broughton the power to appoint the board and effective control of the sale process.
  • (18) Lim's public release of a letter sent to the Liverpool board, as court proceedings began, could be seen to aid the argument of Hicks and Gillett.
  • (19) The company, which also owns the Hollister and Gilly Hicks lingerie brands, has been the subject of boycotts from feminist groups – for T-shirts that read "Who needs a brain when you have these?"
  • (20) This theory leads to a new "law" that is put forward as a replacement for Hick's law.

Hillbilly


Definition:

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.

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