shitkicker

Years before, when Westing was in high school, this one fat shitkicker, too stupid to even play football, had had a Confederate bumper sticker on the fender of his rusted pickup.

But if you're a shitkicker and one laid off at the end of the season, you learn the hierarchy.

The cultures are black, Chicano, Southern, freak, suburban and shitkicker. (Shitkicker is dominant.) They are all rotten for women." All that's changed in thirty years is that suburban is now dominant, shitkiccker isn't so ugly as it oncewas and the freaks are now Goths or something.

And Johnson lived and died a dumb shitkicker in the eyes of a lot of people.

Or maybe it was the way Jack Stanton turned on me that hungry, needful look of his that was in the throbbing heart of every Hank Williams song blasting out shitkicker yearning from every honkytonk jukebox in every one-street town on Saturday night: "If yew lu-u-ved me half as much as ah luv yew--"

There he struck up a game for fifty bucks with a couple of young roughs in jeans and worn shitkickers. When he started losing, he used his smart mouth to rile the boys.

"These are the people with the shitkickers and the John Deere hats," Linzey says.