/fəʊks/, /foʊks/, /foʊlks/
OriginCoined by California historian Kevin Starr.
- plural, plural-onlyThe members of one's immediate family, especially one's parents
“My folks visit us at Christmas.”
- US, plural, plural-onlyPeople in general; everybody or anybody.
“Wilson: He's right. They endorse Royce, fine, 'the hell else they gonna do? But what they say and don't say from the pulpit the Sunday before the primary we still got a dog in that fight.
Carcetti: I ”
“Lots of folks like to travel during the holidays.”
- Louisiana, Southern, US, plural, plural-onlyThe police.
- form-of, pluralplural of folk
- California, plural, plural-onlyLate 19th and early 20th century migrants to California from Iowa and other parts of the Midwestern United States.
“McPherson's healing ministry, in fact. was at the core of her success, since so many of the Folks had come to Southern California in late middle or old age in the hope of regaining lost health.”
- A surname.
- form-of, pluralplural of Folk
- California, Southern, archaicTransplants to Southern California from the Midwestern United States, especially Iowa.