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honky-tonk Definition


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honky-tonk
noun
    colloq:
    1. A style of jangly popular piano music based on ragtime.
    (N Amer)
    2. slang
      A cheap seedy nightclub. Also as adj.
      Example: honky-tonk music
Etymology: 1890s: a rhyming compound derived from honk.



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