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shitkicker en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈʃɪtˌkɪkə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From shit + kicker.

Meanings

1. (US, plural-normally, slang, vulgar) A workboot.
   • I saw a tomboy wearing a pair of shitkickers.
   • A week after his feat, Don Eyles, wearing John Lennon glasses, a drooping mustache, long blond hair, black cords and shitkickers, walks down a long hall past phones labeled “Don’t Chatter Classified Matter” and red padlocked waste cans marked “Classified Waste Only” on his way to Draper’s million-dollar mockup of the Lunar Module. 1971 March 18, Timothy Crouse, “Don Eyles: Extra! Weird-Looking Freak Saves Apollo 14!”, in Rolling Stone:
2. (US, offensive, slang, vulgar) A poor, rural person, especially from the southern United States.
3. (US, slang, vulgar) Something unusually unpleasant or difficult.
   • I have a shitkicker of a headache.
4. (offensive, slang, vulgar) A crude, violent and/or uncivilized person; a barbarian; a heathen.

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Synonyms

redneck