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- noun Plural form of
tonk .
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Examples
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If anyone had told me before I moved to Los Angeles over a decade ago that I'd be spending my nights and days here holed up in tiny bars and honky tonks listening to country music I would've been ROFLMAO before the acronym existed.
Suzanne O'Keeffe: Too Real to Be on Radio -- Roots Music Rescues Los Angeles Suzanne O'Keeffe 2011
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Living in his mother's house on Perdido Street in the black section of the Storyville neighbourhood, making a living by delivering coal, milk and newspapers, he would have heard the bands playing the new form of music – a bouillabaisse of ragtime, French quadrilles, work songs, hymns and marches – in the local "tonks", which merged the functions of bars, dancehalls, grocery stalls and bordellos.
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If anyone had told me before I moved to Los Angeles over a decade ago that I'd be spending my nights and days here holed up in tiny bars and honky tonks listening to country music I would've been ROFLMAO before the acronym existed.
Suzanne O'Keeffe: Too Real to Be on Radio -- Roots Music Rescues Los Angeles Suzanne O'Keeffe 2011
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He sang about the people I knew and the life we were all living between visits to the tiny honky tonks.
Suzanne O'Keeffe: Too Real to Be on Radio -- Roots Music Rescues Los Angeles Suzanne O'Keeffe 2011
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If anyone had told me before I moved to Los Angeles over a decade ago that I'd be spending my nights and days here holed up in tiny bars and honky tonks listening to country music I would've been ROFLMAO before the acronym existed.
Suzanne O'Keeffe: Too Real to Be on Radio -- Roots Music Rescues Los Angeles Suzanne O'Keeffe 2011
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He sang about the people I knew and the life we were all living between visits to the tiny honky tonks.
Suzanne O'Keeffe: Too Real to Be on Radio -- Roots Music Rescues Los Angeles Suzanne O'Keeffe 2011
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If anyone had told me before I moved to Los Angeles over a decade ago that I'd be spending my nights and days here holed up in tiny bars and honky tonks listening to country music I would've been ROFLMAO before the acronym existed.
Suzanne O'Keeffe: Too Real to Be on Radio -- Roots Music Rescues Los Angeles Suzanne O'Keeffe 2011
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Living in his mother's house on Perdido Street in the black section of the Storyville neighbourhood, making a living by delivering coal, milk and newspapers, he would have heard the bands playing the new form of music – a bouillabaisse of ragtime, French quadrilles, work songs, hymns and marches – in the local "tonks", which merged the functions of bars, dancehalls, grocery stalls and bordellos.
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He sang about the people I knew and the life we were all living between visits to the tiny honky tonks.
Suzanne O'Keeffe: Too Real to Be on Radio -- Roots Music Rescues Los Angeles Suzanne O'Keeffe 2011
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He sang about the people I knew and the life we were all living between visits to the tiny honky tonks.
Suzanne O'Keeffe: Too Real to Be on Radio -- Roots Music Rescues Los Angeles Suzanne O'Keeffe 2011
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