Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. rural, countrified.

1908		K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. vi: The only good thing about these hick hamlets is they remind you of New York because they are so different.
1919		E. Ferber ‘Un Morso doo Pang’ in One Basket (1947) 76: It’s a joke compared to New York and San Francisco stores. Reg’lar hick joint.
1923		H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 188: I figured I belonged in a hick burg like Drew City the same way a submarine belongs in a bathtub.
1939		Dos Passos Adventures of a Young Man 265: There was a badger [...] his beady little eyes looking out with comical hick suspicion.
1947		N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 49: Never said much, but had always been half friendly in an embarrassed hick sort of way.
1959		C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 149: This is London, not some hick city in the provinces.
1969		‘Iceberg Slim’ Pimp 155: I was trembling like maybe a hick virgin on a casting couch.
1971		R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 124: Alise was from a hick Southern town.
1977		in K. Gilbert Living Black 243: Five defence witnesses were called, and me, an Abo in a hick country town – what was more natural than to receive a sentence of penal servitude for life.
1983		A-Team Storybook 45: Those hick pomegranate farmers were no match for an operator like him.
1998		K. Sampson Awaydays 17: If we’re half the crew we think we are, we ought to be able to turn over a few hick Busies.
2012		C. Stella Rough Riders 108: Don’t step on any hick toes. They won’t appreciate the city input.

2. (US) unsophisticated, naïve.

1929		J. Lait Broadway Melody 44: I’ll kill that hick song-plugger some day.
1932		V.F. Nelson Prison Days and Nights 92: Do you think I can’t kid these hick screws to death?
1949		W.R. Burnett Asphalt Jungle in Four Novels (1984) 161: Gus and his big, tough-looking hick friend.
1957		H. Simmons Corner Boy 193: He must have really thought she was a hick chick.
1979		S. King Dead Zone (1980) 192: You stupid hick sonofobitch!
2001		G. Coughlan Everyday Eng. and Sl. 🌐 Hick or Hickey/Hickster (a/n): unfashionable.
2017		L. McInerney Blood Miracles : [Y]our hick investor’s gone storming out of your little fellowship.