honky-tonk

1. 1.

   a cheap drinking and dancing establishment

   Synonymsbarrelhouse

   Broaderbarroom

Questions about honky-tonk

What does honky-tonk mean?

honky-tonk means "a cheap drinking and dancing establishment".

How many syllables are in honky-tonk?

honky-tonk has 3 syllables and divides as hon-ky--tonk under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for honky-tonk?

Close synonyms include barrelhouse. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.