Meaning of Folks | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The members of one's immediate family, especially one's parents
   plural, plural-only
2. Late 19th and early 20th century migrants to California from Iowa and other parts of the Midwestern United States.
   California, plural, plural-only
3. A surname.
4. People in general; everybody or anybody.
   US, plural, plural-only
5. Transplants to Southern California from the Midwestern United States, especially Iowa.
   California, Southern, archaic
6. The police.
   Louisiana, Southern, US, plural, plural-only, rare, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“My folks visit us at Christmas.”

“Wilson: He's right. They endorse Royce, fine, 'the hell else they gonna do? But what they say and don't say from the pulpit the Sunday before the primary we still got a dog in that fight. Carcetti: I do this right, they respect it. Wilson: An' if they don't, at least they get to see a beggin'-ass white man on his knees. Always a feel-good moment for the folks.”

“Lots of folks like to travel during the holidays.”

“McPherson's healing ministry, in fact. was at the core of her success, since so many of the Folks had come to Southern California in late middle or old age in the hope of regaining lost health.”

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