city slickers
Sophisticates from downtown
City slickers are people from urban areas, especially when viewed by rural residents as naive about country life, manual labor, or practical skills.
The term carries mild condescension—a city slicker might not know how to change a tire or handle livestock: Those city slickers wouldn't last a day on the farm.
Sometimes used self-deprecatingly by urbanites acknowledging their own inexperience with rural ways.
- suitMatched formal garments
- urbanitesMetropolitan area residents
- tieEqual score, or neckwear
- crowdLarge public gathering
- worldlyExperienced in practical affairs
sophisticate · metropolitan · street smart · skyscraper · rush · phone · greenhorn · cultured · high rise · Billy Crystal · dude ranch · tenderfoot · cowboy · cityscape · rat race · taxi · country bumpkin · rustic
city slickerscountry bumpkins
Unsophisticated rural people
hicks · hillbillies · yokels · rubes · bumpkins
city slickersoutdoorsmen
Wilderness recreation enthusiasts
ranchers · farmers · frontiersmen · woodsmen · homesteaders
city slickerssalt of the earth
Fundamentally decent, reliable people
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