0 a person who lives in a city, and has no experience of or knowledge about living in the countryside --
The floating houses that come to view as visitors approach the island are a sight to awe any city slickers.
Dogpatch residents regularly combat the likes of city slickers, business tycoons, government officials and intellectuals with their homespun simplicity.
People in the rural communities are being confronted, much against their will, with the city slickers.
They have the idea that in some way the city slickers always know best how to deal with such matters.
It is not really a question of "city slickers" gambling, although no doubt people do gamble.
On the contrary, the townsfolk prove the equal of the city slickers in guile, and a fair exchange of indiscretions and humiliations belongs to both sides.
City slicker is an idiomatic expression for someone accustomed to a city or urban lifestyle and unsuited to life in the country.
As a city slicker, he finds himself bungling in a new environment.
