honky-tonk

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: honk=y-tonk

CIDE DICTIONARY

honky-tonk, n. 

•  a cheap drinking and dancing establishment; a cheap and tawdry nightclub.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  A district in which honky-tonks{1} are found.  [PJC]

honky-tonk, a. 

•  Pertaining to or resembling a honky-tonk.  [PJC]
•  Pertaining to a style of ragtime piano music having a melody embellished with chords and syncopated rhythms, accompanied by a bass in strict two-four or four-four time. It is often played on an upright piano having its strings muffled to produce a tinny sound; as, a honky-tonk piano.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

honky-tonk, n. colloq.
1 ragtime piano music.
2 a cheap or disreputable nightclub, dancehall, etc.

Etymology

20th c.: orig. unkn.