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Từ điển LongMan Dictionary
hillbilly
 hill‧bil‧ly/ˈhɪlbɪli/ noun (plural hillbillies) [COUNTABLE]
[date : 1900-2000; Origin : hill + Billy, a man's name, from William]
American English an insulting word meaning an uneducated poor person who lives in the mountains
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And Samuel Turner Stevens, on fretless banjo, demonstrates the ties between white hillbilly music and rural blues.
▪ Berry adapted Johnson's self-taught hillbilly style to his guitar and emerged as frontman of the renamed Chuck Berry Trio.
▪ Beyond that, it promises to provide a weekly primer on dopey and unctuous behavior among upscale hillbillies who dress well.
▪ From sultry crooners to hillbilly boogie, Case's voice always sounds at home in her material.
▪ If it was necessary, I could do hillbilly stuff.
▪ One good thing is that the extended family of toothless hillbillies who used to live down the street moved away.
▪ This is not to say, however, that the ramp is strictly hillbilly food.
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