Okie
/ˈəʊki
/noun (plural Okies) US
1 informal A native or inhabitant of Oklahoma: a grim-faced Okie [as modifier]: an extended Okie family...
- He picks from sunrise to sundown for an old Okie family.
- 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.
1.1 historical, derogatory A migrant agricultural worker from Oklahoma who had been forced to leave a farm during the depression of the 1930s.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 come to a blockade where they are kept from entering a town that does not want any ‘goddamn Okies.’
- We can't let these Okies get out of hand.
