[fohk] 
| 1. | Usually, folks. (used with a plural verb ) people in general: Folks say there wasn't much rain last summer. |
| 2. | Often, folks. (used with a plural verb) people of a specified class or group: country folk; poor folks. |
| 3. | (used with a plural verb) people as the carriers of culture, esp. as representing the composite of social mores, customs, forms of behavior, etc., in a society: The folk are the bearers of oral tradition. |
| 4. | folks, Informal.
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| 5. | Archaic. a people or tribe. |
| 6. | of or originating among the common people: folk beliefs; a folk hero. |
| 7. | having unknown origins and reflecting the traditional forms of a society: folk culture; folk art. |
| 8. | just folks, Informal. (of persons) simple, unaffected, unsophisticated, or open-hearted people: He enjoyed visiting his grandparents because they were just folks. |
| folk (fōk) n. pl. folk or folks
[Middle English, from Old English folc; see pelə-1 in Indo-European roots.] |
just folks
Friendly, unpretentious. For example, Politicians meeting the public like to pretend they are just folks, but that's not always true. [First half of 1900s]