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  hicksville

  noun

  a backward, provincial place; backwater.
• Hicksville
  Hicksville

  noun

  a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.

hicksville

¹ American  

[hiks-vil] / ˈhɪks vɪl /

noun

Slang.

1. a backward, provincial place; backwater.

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Hicksville ² American  

[hiks-vil] / ˈhɪks vɪl /

noun

1. a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.

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Etymology

Origin of hicksville

First recorded in 1910–15; hick + ’s ¹ + -ville

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Hicksville

My family first lived with my father’s parents in Brooklyn before moving to Long Island, N.Y., first to Hicksville then North Babylon and, when I was 5, to West Islip.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025

There is no suitable gym on site and it is a four-hour round trip by bus to the training facilities in Cantiague Park in Hicksville.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2024

“Kids are consuming entertainment differently than they were 10, 20 years ago,” Mr. McKillips said sitting in a booth at the Chuck E. Cheese in Hicksville, N.Y., on Long Island.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2024

And it is from the Hicksville, New York library.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 31, 2023

The quiet of Hicksville, North Carolina, could have been no deeper than the stillness which prevailed when the scouts finished reading this letter.

From Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese