Synonyms for folks
folks

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1. folksnoun

   your parents

   "he wrote to his folks every day"

   Synonyms:
   common people, folk

2. folk, folks, common peoplenoun

   people in general (often used in the plural)

   "they're just country folk"; "folks around here drink moonshine"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next"

   Synonyms:
   common people, kinsfolk, tribe, sept, family line, kinfolk, folk music, phratry, ethnic music, folk, family

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1. folksnoun

   Synonyms:
   [Colloquial.] people, persons

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1. folksnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Collog.) people, persons

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1. List of paraphrases for "folks":

   parents, friends, guys, people, fellas

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1. Tommy Tuberville:

   Folks in Alabama know that if we're going to help President Donald Trump change this country then we've got to stop recycling the same old politicians, as Attorney General, Jeff Sessions had Attorney General chance to have President Trump back and take on the establishment politicians and Attorney General failed.

2. Joseph Silletti:

   I couldn't imagine living every day and waking up and wondering why I have the wrong organs, i just couldn't. But these folks have been, and now I understand what a relief it must be to have the organs you believe you need, and I don't see that as any way' cosmetic.'.

3. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie:

   These folks in Iowa and New Hampshire particularly are notoriously late deciders. They want to hear everybody. They want to see everybody, digest all this stuff, and then they'll make decisions.

4. William Terrill:

   Many, many times I see officers pull money out of their pocket and buy someone a coffee, buy someone a meal, take them inside and let them warm up, i've seen officers let folks in the back of their car to warm up while they're handling an incident. They see someone on the corner and they say, 'Why don't you hang out in the car while I handle this incident.' It had nothing to do with them. They're just letting them warm up.

5. Ted Cruz:

   When others attack me I don't respond in kind, my response is typically not only not to respond but a lot of times to heap praises on the other folks. Now scripture gives us some guidance to that and they say when you pay unkindness with kindness that it's like heaping coals on their heads.