Definition of "honky-tonk" []

• A cheap, noisy bar or dance hall. (noun)
• Of or relating to such a bar or dance hall; tawdry: a honky-tonk district; honky-tonk entertainers. (adjective)
• Of, relating to, or being a type of ragtime characteristically played on a tinny-sounding piano or in a honky-tonk. (adjective)
• To visit cheap, noisy bars or dance halls. (verb-intransitive)

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• "She wore hip-hugging tight jeans most of the time, and when she went out to sing at what she called another honky-tonk, she usually tied the bottom of her blouse so there was a little midriff showing."
• "(See: falling into stalker-level love with Jillian after one cowboy-themed date at an empty honky-tonk bar.)"
• "She was playing the harmonica and I was playing the honky-tonk piano."