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say it: fohks
folks is a noun meaning "your parents". It is pronounced /ˈfoʊks/ — fohks. It carries 2 recorded senses.
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for folks come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.