1.
In rural areas, the rough and rugged men, women and families from the backwoods, mountains and hills that produced and distributed alcohol products during the prohibition era. The men typically wore full beards and overalls. The women usually wore modest, full length dresses with hair up in a bun style. They usually spoke with a strong southern drawl. Loosely, the equivalent of hillbilly. Also called moonshiner.
My great granddad used to get his whiskey from a ridge runner that lived way up in the hills, where even the sheriff wouldn't go.
See moonshiner, hillbilly, hick, alcohol
2.
An uncommon word describing a hickor hillbilly. I use it to describe some of the more "colorful" people where I am from. No teeth, chews tobacco, 2 sets of clothes (work clothes and Sunday clothes), usually lives 2 hours or more from the nearest general store, and some are seen walking the back country roads (or searching rivers) with a stick and a bag to pick up the trash and sell it.
"Hey Mom, I saw those damn ridge runners again. They were climbing into the dumpsters and sorting through the trash."
See hick, hillbilly, redneck, white trash
3.
A really stupid fuckin' hick.
Them dirty rotten ridge runners have more cars in their front yard than a fuckin' car dealer!
