Word: hick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police station, Dillinger, identified by fingerprints, growled: "I'll be the laughing stock of the country. How did I know that a hick town police force would ever suspicion me." He and his friends, along with their women folk, Mary Kinder, Opal Long, Anne Martin, were clapped into jail, guarded by 15 armed men while police checked over five machine guns, $26,000 in cash, $12,000 in jewels, six bullet-proof vests, all found in the suspicious luggage. A Justice of the Peace held them in bail of $100,000 each...
Practically any municipality, with the possible exception of such cities as Richmond, Louisville, Charleston, and New Orleans, is referred to as a "hick" village...
...Thanks," he said as the clerk handed over the money. To a big-city friend the drummer said, as they strolled out of the lobby: "I had that hick all hot & bothered, keeping this $100 bill for me. It's stage money!" and to impress other hicks, he used the bill to light a cigar...
...friend, who fled in the coupe, was taken not long after. Said Badman Nannery, the identity of whose license plates was disclosed in a recent raid on one of his haunts: "I didn't intend to let anybody take me alive. What gets me is the way that hick flat foot kidded me with that poker face...
...Travisville in the beginning. That's his story anyway. Travis was an old ship captain and from what I hear he was some boy. Let's stick to the old name of Travisville, but let's cut off the ville. That sounds too much like a hick place. . . . Imagine going into some of them big Manhattan department stores to buy and giving your home address as Linoleumville...