Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cheap, noisy bar or dance hall.
- adjective Of or relating to such a bar or dance hall; tawdry.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being a type of ragtime characteristically played on a tinny-sounding piano or in a honky-tonk.
- intransitive verb To visit cheap, noisy bars or dance halls.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Alow groggery: a slang name among the negroes of the southern United States.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to or resembling a honky-tonk.
- adjective (Music) 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.
- noun a cheap drinking and dancing establishment; a cheap and tawdry nightclub.
- noun A district in which honky-tonks{1} are found.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated A
cheap nightclub - noun dated The type of
music typically played in such a club - noun A style of
country music emphasizing traditional country instruments (e.g.,guitar ,steel guitar andfiddle ); a rough, nasal vocal style; and tragic themes such asheartbreak ,infidelity andalcoholism .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a cheap drinking and dancing establishment
- noun a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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She wore hip-hugging tight jeans most of the time, and when she went out to sing at what she called another honky-tonk, she usually tied the bottom of her blouse so there was a little midriff showing.
Lightning Strikes V.C. ANDREWS® 2000
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She wore hip-hugging tight jeans most of the time, and when she went out to sing at what she called another honky-tonk, she usually tied the bottom of her blouse so there was a little midriff showing.
Lightning Strikes V.C. ANDREWS® 2000
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She wore hip-hugging tight jeans most of the time, and when she went out to sing at what she called another honky-tonk, she usually tied the bottom of her blouse so there was a little midriff showing.
Lightning Strikes V.C. ANDREWS® 2000
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She wore hip-hugging tight jeans most of the time, and when she went out to sing at what she called another honky-tonk, she usually tied the bottom of her blouse so there was a little midriff showing.
Lightning Strikes V.C. ANDREWS® 2000
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Hottle said some of Cline's original costumes, still faintly smelling of the cigarette smoke that hung in the 1950s honky-tonk air, are in climate-controlled storage for display in a museum that Celebrating Patsy Cline hopes to eventually open elsewhere in Winchester.
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Hottle said some of Cline's original costumes, still faintly smelling of the cigarette smoke that hung in the 1950s honky-tonk air, are in climate-controlled storage for display in a museum that Celebrating Patsy Cline hopes to eventually open elsewhere in Winchester.
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(See: falling into stalker-level love with Jillian after one cowboy-themed date at an empty honky-tonk bar.)
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Hottle said some of Cline's original costumes, still faintly smelling of the cigarette smoke that hung in the 1950s honky-tonk air, are in climate-controlled storage for display in a museum that Celebrating Patsy Cline hopes to eventually open elsewhere in Winchester.
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She was playing the harmonica and I was playing the honky-tonk piano.
Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Premiere: Wild Palms' "To The Lighthouse," Plus A Conversation With Susan Werner Mike Ragogna 2011
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She was playing the harmonica and I was playing the honky-tonk piano.
Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Premiere: Wild Palms' "To The Lighthouse," Plus A Conversation With Susan Werner Mike Ragogna 2011
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