Definition of "hillbilly" [hillbilly]

• Informal A person from the backwoods or a remote mountain area. (noun)

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• "In a party that worships the likes of Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman, and speaks with the voices of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, this hillbilly is actually part of the “mainstream”."
• "This vapid, vacuous, uneducated, Alaska hillbilly is an international laughingstock."
• "I also think you are right to distinguish between redneck and what I call hillbilly culture in southern whites."