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honky-tonk

['hɔŋkitɔŋk]
n.
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honky-tonk

[ noun ]
a cheap drinking and dancing establishment
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honky-tonk \honky-tonk\ a.
Pertaining to or resembling a honky-tonk.
[PJC]

2. (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; as, a
honky-tonk piano. --RHUD
[PJC]

honky-tonk \honky-tonk\ n.
1. a cheap drinking and dancing establishment; a cheap and
tawdry nightclub.

Syn: barrelhouse.
[WordNet 1.5]

2. A district in which honky-tonks[1] are found.
[PJC]

Just live, you'll suffer." Singer Mickey Gilley, whose earthy Texas nightclub was the focus of the movie "Urban Cowboy," hasn't set foot in the honky-tonk for two years.
Sources of his inspirations included memories of black churches and honky-tonk bars he knew as a child growig up poor in a small Texas town, as well as social protest, as in his 1969 "Masekela Language," which dealt with being black in South Africa.
Equally at home in the boardroom or at the blackjack table, Wynn has taken the Golden Nugget from a honky-tonk casino in downtown's Glitter Gulch to one of the nation's premier gaming companies with revenues of about $190 million a year.
The 58-year-old Walker rose and fell in grand Texas style: buying rounds for patrons of his giant honky-tonk, sailing a multimillion-dollar yacht and flying several private planes before being caught in the economic pinch.
The owners of the building that housed Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, a legendary honky-tonk frequented in its heyday by country music celebrities, also own the right to the tavern's name, a judge has ruled.
To the resounding applause of 600 people at the rustic, wood-floor honky-tonk, he picked and crooned one country tune after another, talking to the crowd in between instrumental solos as if he were talking to old friends.

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