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• n  your parents
  he wrote to his folks every day
• n  people in general (often used in the plural)
  folks around here drink moonshine
• n  people in general (often used in the plural)
  folks around here drink moonshine
• n  a social division of (usually preliterate) people
• n  people descended from a common ancestor
• n  the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community

• The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like Im doing now, man, for more years than I know, Elvis told reporters in 1956.

• folk
• common people
• tribe
• family
• family line
• kinfolk
• kinsfolk
• sept
• phratry
• folk music
• ethnic music

News & Articles

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• Police arrest alleged prostitute at old folks home
  FLORENCE, Italy, June 18 (UPI) -- Italian police said they've uncovered a woman who was allegedly turning tricks at an old folks home in Florence.
  June 18, 2013 - UPI
• Roy’s Folks: Blue Heron babies
  In this Roy’s Folks, Roy Ackland introduces us to Blue Heron babies.
  June 17, 2013 - FOX 8 WGHP
• MICHAEL C. MOORE | VIEWPOINT: Local theater folks give new meaning to 'long time, no see'
  MICHAEL C. MOORE | VIEWPOINT: Local theater folks give new meaning to ‘long time, no see’
  June 17, 2013 - The Kitsap Sun

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Global Times
  I'm going to push back hard on this because I think that this is an idea that got into folks' heads and the media is running with it,Obama said on NBC television's "Today Show," referring to the criticism.
• David Letterman in Irish Examiner
  Now the other thing is my wife, Regina. She has been horribly hurt by my behaviour, and when something happens like that, if you hurt a person and it's your responsibility, you try to fix it,Letterman said. "Let me tell you folks, I've got...
• Mark Sanford in CNN International
  I am not going to be railroaded out of this office by political opponents or folks that were never fans of mine in the first place,Sanford told reporters.