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  • just folks
    just folks
    plural noun
    unpretentious, informal, down-to-earth people.
  • just-folks
    just-folks
    adjective
    unpretentious, informal, down-to-earth, etc. (often ironically or affectedly).

just folks

1 American  
[juhst fohks] / ˈdʒəst ˈfoʊks /

plural noun

  1. unpretentious, informal, down-to-earth people.


just-folks 2 American  
[juhst fohks] / ˈdʒəst ˈfoʊks /

adjective

  1. unpretentious, informal, down-to-earth, etc. (often ironically or affectedly).


just folks Idioms  
  1. Friendly, unpretentious. For example, Politicians meeting the public like to pretend they are just folks, but that's not always true. [First half of 1900s]


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These aren’t just folks who enjoy drinking the fermented black tea.

From Seattle Times Jul. 5, 2023

We think of this as the “Buzzy” round, a kind of viewing guide for awards-season followers or just folks who want hot tips for the best stuff on TV.

From Los Angeles Times May 30, 2023

“We have all these different festivals about to come into play, and one is the JazzFest, which brings you not just folks from all over the country but all over the world,” Dupree said.

From Washington Post Apr. 23, 2022

That struck me as definitely the predecessor of these influencers and women who clean on YouTube, in that their whole appeal was that they were just folks like you.

From Salon May 9, 2021

But it wasn’t just folks back home who stood up and paid attention to what had just happened.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

Enter Yael Bridge’s “Big Scary ‘S’ Word,” a stuffed compendium of formulations from experts, historical precedents and just-folks testimonials.

From New York Times Sep. 2, 2021

Ellen DeGeneres’s just-folks delivery treated incandescent celebrities as if they were regular people who like eating pizza and being on television.

From New York Times Mar. 9, 2014

In keeping with his just-folks, no-frills style, his favorite New York restaurants have been a handful of modest places within a few blocks of his home in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

From New York Times Dec. 23, 2013

They are not the old authority figures, but just-folks team players.

From Time Magazine Archive

He's got that just-folks, Kansas City-Oklahoma City look about him.

From Time Magazine Archive

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