According to Anthony Harkins in Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon, the term first appeared in print in a 1900 New York Journal article, with the definition: " a Hill-Billie is a free and untrammeled white citizen of Alabama, who lives in the hills, has no means to speak of, dresses as he can, talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it, and fires off his revolver as the fancy takes him.

The term leap year gets its name from the fact that while a fixed date in the Gregorian calendar normally advances one day of the week from one year to the next, in a leap year it will advance two days due to the year's extra day ( thus " leaping over " one of the days in the week ).

* A slang term for murder, as in " The mob has been known to grease anyone who gets in its way "

In a corporate setting, challengers of cumulative voting argue that the board of directors gets divided and this hurts the company's long term profit.

I know there is this generic commonplace that every band that gets labeled with that term hates it.

Whether a term is theoretical or not is a semantic matter, because it involves the different ways in which the term gets its meaning ( from a theory or from an observation ).

Alison gets a nasty shock at the end of the term when she discovers that Miss Quentin laughs at her behind her back.

* Vera Johns ( Form 1 ) Vera is a girl in the twins first year but gets moved up in the twins third term and is from then on, not mentioned.

The broadest sovereign is what gets translated as the single term emperor in English.

A note about grammar: when used to describe something which is physically formed again, such as re-casting it in a mold / mould, or a band that gets back together, the proper term is re-form ( with a hyphen ), not " reform ".

Each CSM gets the authority to put requests to CCP three times during their term of office which CCP have stated must be answered ; once in person in Iceland and twice by e-mail, with most of the costs of their visit to Iceland being borne by CCP.

Farage called this a " misrepresentation ", pointing out that the money had been used to promote UKIP's message and staff salaries, not his own salary, but he welcomed the focus on the issue of MEP expenses, claiming that " ver a five year term each and every one of Britain's 78 MEPs gets about £ 1 million.

The term " Code Five " is often substituted ( a visual use of the Roman numeral V is the closest the series gets to citing the word " vampire "), as is the slang " leech ".

Lower house is elected with 5 years term, while in upper house 1 / 3 of the total members in the house gets elected every 2 years with 6 year term.

This term is often used in the electronics industry as a part of service agreements, according to which the customer returns the product back to the company and gets a new or repaired product back, generally with an additional warranty on the returned product.

In the long term, the ' muddy patch ' above the pitch on the top of the grassy bank on the south side will hopefully have new apartments built on it ( once the land gets sold ), the stand and ProKick gym behind it will be knocked down and a new stand with restaurant and viewing lounge will be added, along with new premises for ProKick.

" The media likes to use the term ' vigilante ' because it gets attention, but we don't consider ourselves vigilantes.

Mr. Bultitude has to begin the new academic term at his son's boarding school, while Dick gets a chance to run his father's business in the City.

The term " Space Hulk ", from which the game gets its name, is used within the Warhammer 40, 000 universe for any masses of ancient, derelict starships, asteroids, and other assorted space junk drifting in and out of the Warp that eventually merges into one massive form, ranging from the size of a small moon to a large planet, which drift through the territory of the Imperium.

It gets even more confusing when using the term in relation to the most distal segment in the lower limb ( that is not part of the mid foot or forefoot ); the calcaneus ( heel ).

The President and the Vice-President are elected in one ballot, for a four-year term, by direct popular vote, using a runoff voting system: there must be a second round if no formula gets more than 45 % of the affirmative valid votes, or more than 40 % of the affirmative valid votes with a difference of 10 percentage points from the second formula, in quantity of affirmative valid votes.

The term gets its name from scud, which is used to describe small, ragged, low cloud fragments that are unattached to a larger cloud base, and often seen with and behind cold fronts and thunderstorm gust fronts.

Naturally occurring asphalt is sometimes specified by the term " crude bitumen "; its viscosity is similar to that of cold molasses .< ref >

The term when adopted into ecclesiastical usage retained much of its original significance.

For referring specifically to a U. S. national and things, the words used are estadunidense ( also spelled estado-unidense ) ( United States person ), from Estados Unidos da América, and ianque ( Yankee ), but the term most often used is norte-americano, even though it could, as with its Spanish equivalent, in theory apply to Canadians, Mexicans, etc., as well.

Although Dirac did not himself use the term antimatter, its use follows on naturally enough from antielectrons, antiprotons, etc.

In 1979, the USSR removed the term " Ainu " from the list of living ethnic groups of Russia, an act by which the government proclaimed that the Ainu as an ethnic group was extinct in its territory.

It is unlikely that the term " democracy " was coined by its detractors who rejected the possibility of a valid " demarchy ", as the word " demarchy " already existed and had the meaning of mayor or municipal.

Although the term aeon may be used in reference to a period of a billion years ( especially in geology, cosmology or astronomy ), its more common usage is for any long, indefinite, period.

The term Assyria can also refer to the geographic region or heartland where Assyria, its empires and the Assyrian people were centred.

Bidwill, with plans already in the works to leave St. Louis, opted instead to sign a long term lease with Arizona State University to use its Sun Devil Stadium as the home of his soon-to-be Arizona-based NFL franchise.

Hence, historically, it is a daughter language of Dutch, and was previously referred to as " Cape Dutch " ( a term also used to refer collectively to the early Cape settlers ) or ' kitchen Dutch ' ( a crude or derogatory term Afrikaans was called in its earlier days ).

The term can trace its origin to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan when millions of Afghans took refuge in neighboring Pakistan and Iran.

Anointing of the Sick, known also by other names, is distinguished from other forms of religious anointing or " unction " ( an older term with the same meaning ) in that it is intended, as its name indicates, for the benefit of a sick person.

The term suggests that its followers support protectionism and / or nationalism, which is not always the case-in fact, some supporters of anti-globalization are strong opponents of both nationalism and protectionism: for example, the No Border network argues for unrestricted migration and the abolition of all national border controls.

Unlike in Hindu and Jain sources, in ancient Buddhist texts ahimsa ( or its Pāli cognate ) is not used as a technical term.

AMPS pioneers fathered the term " cellular " because of its use of small hexagonal " cells " within a system.

" The term was introduced by Apollonius of Perga in his work on conic sections, but in contrast to its modern meaning, he used it to mean any line that does not intersect the given curve.

During Clinton's term, Arkansas performed its first executions since 1964 ( the death penalty had been re-enacted on March 23, 1973 ).

Being a monarchical state, with its roots invested in Colonial England, black letter law is that which is a term used to describe basic principles of law that are accepted by the majority of judges in most provinces and territories.

This year marks the first post-communist government that not collapsed and served its 4-year term until 2001, thus stabilizing the political system in Bulgaria.

Dark energy in its simplest formulation takes the form of the cosmological constant term in Einstein's field equations of general relativity, but its composition and mechanism are unknown and, more generally, the details of its equation of state and relationship with the Standard Model of particle physics continue to be investigated both observationally and theoretically.

The use of the term " battle " in military history has led to its misuse when referring to almost any scale of combat, notably by strategic forces involving hundreds of thousands of troops that may be engaged in either a single battle at one time ( Battle of Leipzig ) or multiple operations ( Battle of Kursk ).

The term is commonly used in its shortened form, phage.