词汇 | shitkicker |
词源 | shitkicker. Shitkicker is a Texas culture all to itself, according to Molly Ivins in Molly Ivins Can’t Say That, Can She? (1991): “Shitkicker is pickup trucks with guns slung across the racks on the back and chicken-fried steaks and machismo . . . and cheap, pink nylon slips, and gettin’ drunk on Saturday night and goin’ to church on Sunday morning, and drivin’ down the highway throwin’ beer cans out the window, and Rastus-an’-Liza jokes and high school football, and family reunions where the in- laws of your second cousins show up. . . .” And much more and, with a few minor changes, a culture in many places. Shitkicker has also been used to mean a cowboy and as a synonym for cowboy boots. |
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