Jed Clampett

plural Jed Clampetts

1. A low-class, trashy nouveau riche person who may be naive and is often a hillbilly or otherwise rural.

   Newly rich, the city was the Jed Clampett of urbanism.

   2025, Don Gillmor, On Oil, Biblioasis

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   Zayed may not have been the "Jed Clampett of the Middle East," as Americans staying at some of his new four-star hotels used to joke. But he was a financial ingenue with a newly minted horde of money, a horde that got much, much bigger after the Arab oil em-bargo. He was like Jed Clampett in that he went immediately for the big house in Beverly Hills and the swimming pool, and that he was simply not aware that most of the people who showed up on his doorstep were fortune seekers, and quite often dishonest fortune seek-ers.

   2004, Jonathan Beaty, S. C. Gwynne, The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride Into the Secret Heart of BCCI, Beard Books

   "What's sad," said the bicycle rep, "is that he's the prize of the bunch. He's the Jed Clampett of this menagerie."

   2014, Ron Ebest, The Dave Store Massacre, Chicago Review Press

   "My car is the one that each time the door opens, some piece of garbage goes flying out. It drives me crazy. I feel like the Jed Clampett of car owners." —Jenny

   2012, Kathi Lipp, The Get Yourself Organized Project: 21 Steps to Less Mess and Stress, Harvest House Press, page 185

   While the sound of country music had become more sophisticated, the key change the magazine cited for country's resurgence as a programming choice was "the awareness by broadcasters that their country music audience isn't limited to hayseeds, Okies, rubes, or Jed Clampetts." The magazine listed the healthy economic characteristics of the country listener along with a list of sponsors that included airlines and Cadillac dealers.

   2002, Country Music Annual 2002, University Press of Kentucky, page 76