noun
- heavy, clumsy shoes or boots
- awkward or unsophisticated people, especially from rural areas
Usage: informal
Usage: informal; sometimes derogatory
Examples
- He stomped through the mud in his old clodhoppers.
- She kicked off her heavy clodhoppers at the door.
- The construction workers wore steel-toed clodhoppers for safety.
- Those clodhoppers left muddy prints all over the clean floor.
- The city folks looked down on the clodhoppers from the countryside.
- Don’t call them clodhoppers just because they’re from a small town.