hiller
nounUK /ˈhɪlə(ɹ)/ · US /ˈhɪlɚ/
Etymology From hill + -er.
1
Appalachia, Derogatory A poor rural person.
- But at my alma mater in West Virginia, we had a unique "Us & Them" sorting classification: you were either a “hiller” or a “creeker.”2017 August 23, Trey Kay, “Us & Them: 'You're Either a Hiller or a Creeker'”, in Us & Them, Charleston, West Virginia, United States: West Virginia Public Broadcasting, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2020:
- Coordinate terms
- creeker, the next poorest socioeconomic class