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honky-tonk

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Noun
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honk=y-tonk

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun honky-tonk has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

honky-tonkn. 
  •  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-tonka. 
  •  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]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

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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