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means A term, often derogatory but sometimes worn as a badge of pride, for a person from a remote rural or mountainous area, especially Appalachia.

from First appears in print in America around 1900, stitched together from two older British dialect scraps: 'hill,' for the high, isolated country such folk were presumed to live in, and 'billy,' a generic slangy name for a man or fellow (as in 'billy-goat' or old British slang using 'Billy' the way we'd say 'some guy'). The pairing stuck as a label — first mocking, later sometimes reclaimed — for Appalachian and Ozark mountain folk assumed to be backward and cut off from city sophistication.