What is Honky Tonk?
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A loud, rowdy bar that plays 'honky tonk' country music. Typically full of drunken hillbillies having a good ole' time. To go out 'honky tonkin' is to go out on the town to honky tonk bars and get drunk.
Sam likes to stay out at the honky tonk to 3 in the morning.
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origin: southern lexicon. 1) helluva of a good time involving good music, beer, and good friends.
We're all meeting over at Beth's place for a little honky tonk.
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The first genre of music to be commonly known as honky tonk music was a style of piano playing related to ragtime, but emphasizing rhythm more than melody or harmony, since the style evolved in response to an environment where the pianos were often poorly cared for, tending to be out of tune and having some nonfunctioning keys. (Hence an out-of-tune upright piano is sometimes called a honky-tonk piano, e.g. in the General MIDI set of standard electronic music sounds.)
Such honky tonk music was an important influence on the formation of the boogie woogie piano style, as indicated by Jelly Roll Morton's 1938 record "Honky Tonk Music" (recalling the music of his youth, see quotation below), and Meade "Lux" Lewis's big hit "Honky Tonk Train Blues" which Lewis recorded many times from 1927 into the 1950s and was covered by many other musicians from the 1930s on, including Oscar Peterson and Keith Emerson.
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What New Englanders call apple peelers
Get the Honky Tonk out of the drawer and peel those granny smiths
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a chicks ass
Pamela has a nice honky tonk burdonkadonk
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being of the tonk, having in oneself qualities of honky. of southern decent.
mrs. white and mrs. hallet are such so honky tonk gross!
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1.) a form of southern ragtyme piano playing, 2.) the sound one makes while squeezin' boobies; both are used by extreme rednecks
"Hey, flip the switch on the self playing piano. I wanna hear me some drinkin' music!"
"Hey, baby! Come on over and we's have a honky tonkin good time!"
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