Adjective : a honky-tonk atmosphere. ,the honky-tonk part of town.    From Dictionary.com. 

Learned guitar and played with my honkytonk grandfather.    From Wordnik.com.  [mark weber | 3 poems « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference

Tomorrow telling lies to some large-breasted woman in a smoke-filled honkytonk.    From Wordnik.com.  [From On High] Reference

COURIC: Texans are known to do things in a big way, and Billy Bob's Texas, the largest honkytonk in the world, is no exception.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Katie Couric Talks About Her New Book, Her New Look and Life After Tragedy - December 18, 2000] Reference

The song was written by Clancy Carlile, a novelist, songwriter and honkytonk guitarist/singer with whom I was playing in a band.    From Wordnik.com.  [I'm A Loving Man] Reference

Only the prosaic thump and pound of the honkytonk piano saved him from seriously wondering if the man in black might not have raised ghosts to inhabit a deserted town.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gunslinger]

He is, on his frequent best nights, entirely present, often loud and blasting with great ferocity, totally committed to older forms, blues, bluegrass, and honkytonk country, pre-60s folk music.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Tell-Tale Signs' Exposes Bob Dylan Bootlegs] Reference

But after the war, the electric honkytonk typified by Williams and Ernest Tubb and its obsession with such anti-Acuffian themes as cheating and boozing made the King of Country seem increasingly quaint.    From Wordnik.com.  ['I'm Able To Reach The People'] Reference

They had told me a paper moon over a cardboard sea, but it wouldn't be make believe -- honkytonk parade without your love it is a melody played in a penny arcade it is a Barnum and Bailey world as phony as it can be but it wouldn't be make believe if you believe in me.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2002] Reference

The singer put down roots in Austin in the '60s, later playing clubs alongside Nanci Griffith, Lyle Lovett and Lucinda Williams and releasing blithe, honkytonk-style albums for the independent label Hightone. in 1989 Natalie Merchant of 10,000 Maniacs and Elektra Records exec David Bither fell under Gilmore's spell at a folk festival.    From Wordnik.com.  [That Lonesome Whippoorwill] Reference

Review: I did little of the initial contact with honkytonk.    From Wordnik.com.  [DC's] Reference

In the morning, honkytonk made me something to eat before leaving.    From Wordnik.com.  [DC's] Reference

In this case, I was led to believe that honkytonk was a perfect gentleman.    From Wordnik.com.  [DC's] Reference

I remember looking out the window as my manservant escorted honkytonk to the car and they drove away.    From Wordnik.com.  [DC's] Reference

"I never saw Joe angry about anything," said Billy Eli, a honkytonk bandleader who played with Mr. Stack for about three years.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page]

The news story so inspired the people of his hometown that folks dedicated a new line dance in his memory down at the honkytonk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ridiculopathy.com] Reference

The flames, fed by tinder-dry scrubland, forced hundreds of people to flee, and some took shelter in the House of Blues honkytonk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rocky Mount Telegram - Business] Reference

Jed Greenberg of Hop High says, "Ginny's singing has got that raw power, the fermentation of blues and country-the churchyard, the honkytonk, and the holler-it's all there.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronogram Articles and Blogs] Reference

Sleepless Night is classic country, meaning universal heartbreak: lonely nights, cheating spouses, thinking of someone while drinking away your sorrows at a late-night saloon or honkytonk.    From Wordnik.com.  [PopMatters] Reference

It's homemade lemonade, catfish creole, a honkytonk piano, bar brawls aplenty, missing teeth spitting tobbaco, and a catagory five cyclone wiping out the slums only to build it right up again.    From Wordnik.com.  [FasterLouder.com.au > Your Access All Areas pass to the latest in Australian rock music! News, Reviews, Photos, Forums and more] Reference

Brown Bag Concert Series, 12 - 1: 10 p.m. Easy Street duo playing swing, bluegrass, cajun and zydeco, rockabilly and honkytonk and all manner of popular, sometimes obscure, but always interesting music.    From Wordnik.com.  [RutlandHerald.com] Reference

Likewise, Mills 'bass gets lower and richer, and his keyboard adds intricate textures to these songs: "Pilgrimage" is layered with reverberating low-end piano and vibraphone, and his honkytonk piano gives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Murmurs.com] Reference

Though The Fairmount ended up closing, Alverson did all he could to help keep the Southside venue afloat: playing shows and donating his take to the club and getting other local Texas Music and honkytonk musos to follow his lead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home] Reference

Far too much time has been spent protecting our flag, often a tattered rag in front of a "post," more "honkytonk" than veterans organization, while the things that need protection and honor, our vets, our soldiers, are tossed aside like human garbage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salem-News.com] Reference

The line-up covered all bases: the indie-friendly folk of Judson Claiborne, the re-imagined honkytonk of Freakwater, the acoustic blues of David "Honeyboy" Edwards, the beery bar-band rock of the Waco Brothers, the frictive guitar rock of Eleventh Dream Day, and however you classify Andrew Bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [Counago & Spaves] Reference

A "honkytonk" is a country bar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ridiculopathy.com] Reference

I haven’t been to Texas, but whenever i walk in there I feel like I’ve been teleported their thanks to honkytonk atmosphere and wonderful post oak-smoked ‘cue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eating BBQ in Austin and Lockhart, TX] Reference

It was a regular outdoor honkytonk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prohibition Story] Reference

Cicadas, and a sliver of faroff honkytonk music.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Ravens’] Reference

Rate night ask honkytonk, 22.    From Wordnik.com.  [DC's] Reference

Tucson honkytonk, on a lively evening.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama] Reference