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honky-tonk

Noun

honk=y-tonk

WORDNET DICTIONARY

honky-tonk(n = noun.artifact) barrelhouse - a cheap drinking and dancing establishment; Array

is a kind of bar, barroom, ginmill, saloon, taproom

honky-tonk, n.

a cheap drinking and dancing establishment; a cheap and tawdry nightclub. [WordNet 1.5]
A district in which honky-tonks{1} are found. [PJC]

honky-tonk, a.

Pertaining to or resembling a honky-tonk. [PJC]
Pertaining to a style of ragtime piano music having a melody embellished with chords and syncopated rhythms, accompanied by a bass in strict two-four or four-four time. It is often played on an upright piano having its strings muffled to produce a tinny sound; as, a honky-tonk piano. [PJC]

honky-tonk, n. colloq.
1 ragtime piano music.
2 a cheap or disreputable nightclub, dancehall, etc.

Etymology

20th c.: orig. unkn.

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