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Noun Concept

Categories: Culture of the Southern United States, Stereotypes of rural people, History of subcultures, Slang of the Southern United States, Anti-European and anti-white slurs

redneck cracker cracka Cracker-ass crackers

A poor White person in the southern United States WordNet 3.0

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A poor White person in the southern United States WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Redneck is a derogatory term chiefly, but not exclusively, applied to white Americans perceived to be crass and unsophisticated, closely associated with rural whites of the Southern United States. Wikipedia

Cracker, sometimes cracka or white cracker, is a racial epithet directed towards white people, used especially with regard to poor rural whites in the Southern United States. Wikipedia

White person of lower socioeconomic status in the United States and Canada. Wikipedia Disambiguation

A racial epithet, commonly a derogatory term for any person of white European descent Wikipedia Disambiguation

Slang for white people, derived from whip-crack Wikidata

Derogatory term for poor, rural, usually white and male, person from the Southern United States Wikidata

An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn). Wiktionary

Ambitious or hard-working person. Wiktionary (translation)

IS A

rustic

demonym

pejorative

SAID TO BE THE SAME AS

White race

USAGE DOMAIN

ethnic slur

WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

redneck, cracker

Wikipedia

redneck, cracker (term)

Wikidata

Cracker, redneck

Wiktionary

cracker

Wikipedia Redirections

cracka, Cracker-ass, Cracker (pejorative), crackers (ethnicity), red-necks, red neck, Red necks, Redneck (stereotype), Redneckistan, rednecks, Rednek, Rednik, white cracker, White crackers

Wikidata Alias

White cracker