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honky-tonk colloq. (orig. U.S.).|ˈhɒŋkɪtɒŋk|
Also honkatonk, honkey-tonk.
[Etym. unknown.]
1. A tawdry drinking-saloon, dance-hall, or gambling-house; a cheap night-club. Also in somewhat extended uses, and attrib. or as adj.
1894Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.) 24 Feb. 1/4 The honk-a-tonk last night was well attended by ball⁓heads, bachelors and leading citizens. 1924Étude Sept. 595/3 These dance resorts were known as ‘Honky-Tonks’—a name, which in itself suggests some of the rhythms of Jazz. 1927C. Sandburg Songbag 232 It was moaned by resonant moaners in honky tonks of the southwest. 1928M. C. Sharpe Chicago May 287 Honky-tonk, gaudy saloon with back-room hangout. 1930C. E. Mulford Deputy Sheriff xiii. 168 ‘This place ain't no damn' honkatonk, stranger,’ reproved the bar-tender... ‘Folks get throwed outa here sometimes.’ 1935A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 57/1 Honkey tonk, an underworld dance hall in which female entertainers are employed. 1936Delineator Nov. 48/2 The inner room of a honky-tonk on a back street..New Orleans. 1940W. Faulkner Hamlet iv. ii. 387 Its master whose anonymous dust lay with that of his blood and of the progenitors of saxophone players in Harlem honky-tonks. 1945J. Steinbeck Cannery Row 1 Honky-tonks, restaurants and whore-houses. 1950A. Lomax Mr. Jelly Roll 54 These honkey-tonks ran wide open twenty-four hours a day... Their attendance was some of the lowest caliber women in the world and their intake was the revenue from the little, pitiful gambling games they operated. 1955A. Ross Australia 55 108 The town itself, a little honky-tonk in character, boasts many saloons. 1957G. Lascelles in S. Traill Concerning Jazz 77 Others of possibly less talent were doing stalwart work as accompanists to the blues singers in the honky-tonks of New Orleans and St. Louis. 1962Daily Tel. 31 May 19/4 A Parliamentary Bill would have to be promoted if the Norfolk Broads were to be saved from further ‘honky-tonk development of the very worst type’. 1969I. & P. Opie Children's Games 15 It is not only Battersea Park (the enchanted garden of our childhood) that has been turned into a honky-tonk.
2. Rag-time music or jazz of a type played in honky-tonks, esp. on the piano. Freq. attrib., passing into adj., as honky-tonk piano, an out-of-tune or tinny-sounding piano. Cf. barrel-house 2.
1933Fortune Aug. 90/2 Sometimes they spent weeks in preparation for a single recording date, yet they never sacrificed the informal, honky-tonk spirit. 1936Swing Music Autumn 62/2 Superficially, ‘Honky Tonk’ is the musical interpretation of a train journey; fundamentally it is a twelve-bar blues. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §579/4 Honkytonk, primal ‘swing’ of the style played in the bordels of New Orleans, Memphis and St. Louis, in which a free rein is given to improvising. 1946R. Blesh Shining Trumpets (1949) ix. 202 Among them were masters of the blues and barrel⁓house piano (or, as Morton calls it ‘Honky Tonk music’). 1953Observer 27 Dec., The barrelhouse piano, also known as the..honkytonk piano. 1964Amer. Folk Music Occasional i. 45 They didn't play for no white folks, because the white folks didn't want that kind of music, they called it honky-tonk. 1972Drive Spring 78/2 Happy, beery men thumping honky-tonk pianos. |