Definition of "redneck"

redneck

/ˈɹɛdnɛk/

noun
plural rednecks
1. (slang, usually derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A poor, rural, usually white, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and Northeast, especially one whose beliefs are seen as unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being bigoted.
  Quotations
  Sample a look back you look and find / Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check
  1989, “Fight the Power”, in Fear of a Black Planet, performed by Public Enemy
2. (historical, slang, US) Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.
3. (historical, slang, US) A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.
4. (UK, archaic, 19th and 20th centuries) A Roman Catholic.