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Word of the Day, no. 2

hick: (hk) Informal n. A person regarded as gullible or provincial:

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  1. Reginleif the Valkyrie says:

    As a very young reporter just out of college, I covered one of these events in a then-small suburb 30 miles south of Boston. They called it a “cow plop.”

    The concept isn’t limited to cows. On his album Root Hog or Die, the infamous Mojo Nixon sings about the “Chicken Drop,” a game played in Southern bars on slow midweek evenings. It involves a wooden board divided into 100 numbered squares, a bunch of drunken patrons, and a rooster in dire need of relief.

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