hon·ky-tonk (hông'kē-tôngk', hŏng'kē-tŏngk')
n.
A cheap, noisy bar or dance hall.

adj.

1. Of or relating to such a bar or dance hall; tawdry: a honky-tonk district; honky-tonk entertainers.
2. Of, relating to, or being a type of ragtime characteristically played on a tinny-sounding piano or in a honky-tonk.

intr.v., -tonked, -tonk·ing, -tonks.
To visit cheap, noisy bars or dance halls.

[Perhaps from HONK.]

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