meaning of folks
1. In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe.
2. People in general, or a separate class of people; -- generally used in the plural form, and often with a qualifying adjective; as, the old folks; poor folks.
3. The persons of ones own family; as, our folks are all well.
4. your parents; "he wrote to his folks every
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