as in cosmopolitan
a person with the outlook, experience, and manners thought to be typical of big city dwellers
with their snotty attitude, the city slickers quickly wore out their welcome
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This and a sandwich from the warming bin of a gas station is an all-star breakfast for a blue-collar hoss or a city slicker who’s on safari in the hinterlands of America.
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Pete Cottell, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2024
Last but not least, Queens is home to Rockaway Beach, where city slickers go to soak up the sun.
—Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 22 July 2024
Over the months since Baldwin was recharged earlier this year, the defense had quibbled over and over about evidence, discovery and tactics with what has sometimes seen like a battle of locals versus city slickers.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 12 July 2024
Everybody knows each other there, news travels fast and city slickers — with their cynicism and logic and skepticism — rarely intrude.
—Rene Rodriguez, Variety, 4 July 2024
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Pete Cottell, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2024
Last but not least, Queens is home to Rockaway Beach, where city slickers go to soak up the sun.
—Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 22 July 2024
Over the months since Baldwin was recharged earlier this year, the defense had quibbled over and over about evidence, discovery and tactics with what has sometimes seen like a battle of locals versus city slickers.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 12 July 2024
Everybody knows each other there, news travels fast and city slickers — with their cynicism and logic and skepticism — rarely intrude.
—Rene Rodriguez, Variety, 4 July 2024
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“City slicker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/city%20slicker. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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