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Definition of Okie in English: OkienounPlural Okies, Plural okies ˈəʊkiˈoʊki US informal 1A native or inhabitant of Oklahoma. as modifier an extended Okie family Example sentencesExamples - The Okie goes in search for his brother and brings back money.
- Although my speech classes eliminated most if it, I still have a little Okie accent left.
- He picks from sunrise to sundown for an old Okie family.
- It features a soundtrack by fellow Okies The Flaming Lips.
- It seemed like we were waiting for a ringmaster to come out, but instead, four shaggy-haired Okie boys bounded on stage and launched into their riffy emo rock.
- When I was 12 in the early 1960s, my Okie father bought me a bottle of cherry vodka, which I could drink when I wanted.
- A touring singer of the ‘country crooning style’, her cheery Okie songs - covered in the spit and hiss of old 78s - heighten the play's avant-weird air.
- The mind reels and the stomach churns along to this blue-eyed Okie funk-rock.
- But background never counts for much in pop music - remember the young Dylan's acquired Okie accent?
- Dean doesn't talk to the women and they return to the Okie house where the daughter is afraid of Dean.
- Janet, the Okie woman, breaks a Dizzy Gillespie record over Dean's head.
- 1.1derogatory, historical A migrant agricultural worker from Oklahoma who had been forced to leave a farm during the depression of the 1930s.
Example sentencesExamples - The depictions of Okies as too stupid to scratch themselves show Steinbeck up for the product of an affluent middle class Coast family that he was.
- We can't let these Okies get out of hand.
- They come to a blockade where they are kept from entering a town that does not want any ‘goddamn Okies.’
- I love that idea of an adult influence on kids and also the idea that those children, the Okies, at that time were considered un-teachable.
- They wanted to keep the Okies out of their stores and out of their schools.
Rhymes chokey, croaky, folkie, folky, hokey, hokey-cokey, hoki, jokey, karaoke, Loki, okey-dokey, pokey, poky, smoky, trochee Definition of Okie in US English: Okienounˈōkēˈoʊki US informal 1A native or inhabitant of Oklahoma. as modifier an extended Okie family Example sentencesExamples - It seemed like we were waiting for a ringmaster to come out, but instead, four shaggy-haired Okie boys bounded on stage and launched into their riffy emo rock.
- Although my speech classes eliminated most if it, I still have a little Okie accent left.
- But background never counts for much in pop music - remember the young Dylan's acquired Okie accent?
- He picks from sunrise to sundown for an old Okie family.
- It features a soundtrack by fellow Okies The Flaming Lips.
- When I was 12 in the early 1960s, my Okie father bought me a bottle of cherry vodka, which I could drink when I wanted.
- Dean doesn't talk to the women and they return to the Okie house where the daughter is afraid of Dean.
- The mind reels and the stomach churns along to this blue-eyed Okie funk-rock.
- A touring singer of the ‘country crooning style’, her cheery Okie songs - covered in the spit and hiss of old 78s - heighten the play's avant-weird air.
- The Okie goes in search for his brother and brings back money.
- Janet, the Okie woman, breaks a Dizzy Gillespie record over Dean's head.
- 1.1historical, derogatory A migrant agricultural worker from Oklahoma who had been forced to leave during the Depression of the 1930s.
Example sentencesExamples - They come to a blockade where they are kept from entering a town that does not want any ‘goddamn Okies.’
- The depictions of Okies as too stupid to scratch themselves show Steinbeck up for the product of an affluent middle class Coast family that he was.
- We can't let these Okies get out of hand.
- They wanted to keep the Okies out of their stores and out of their schools.
- I love that idea of an adult influence on kids and also the idea that those children, the Okies, at that time were considered un-teachable.
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