Meaning of Okie | Babel Free

Definitions

A person from Oklahoma.

US, derogatory, informal, sometimes

Examples

“Will Rogers is considered a famous Okie.”

“[I]n the towns, the storekeepers hated them because they had no money to spend. There is no shorter path to a storekeeper’s contempt, and all his admirations are exactly opposite. The town men, little bankers, hated Okies because there was nothing to gain from them.”

“One time we broke into an Okie house where everybody was getting ready to go to a funeral.”

“When, in high school, I was at the depth of my self-loathing-as-sissy, a brilliant young man arrived in Chickasha to become choral director at the high school. My friends and I had never met anyone like him: urbane, brilliant, dedicated to professional standards, a real taskmaster, who seemed to care for us little Okie hicks.”

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