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Honky-tonk   /hˈɔŋki-tɔŋk/   Listen
Honky-tonk

noun
1.
A cheap drinking and dancing establishment.  Synonym: barrelhouse.






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"Honky-tonk" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Players' Studio, Charlie endeavored to further his quest. But the atmosphere seemed, paradoxically enough, a handicap. A free-and-easy atmosphere with men and women in odd-looking rigs sauntering about. The place was as immoral as a honky-tonk. Charlie stared at the young women in smocks and bobbed hair, smoking cigarettes, sitting with their legs showing. They should have been prostitutes but they weren't. Or maybe they were, only he wasn't ...
— Erik Dorn • Ben Hecht



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