Honkey Tonk?

[posatyvo]

Anybody know what ‘honkey tonk’ exactly is and where the term originated from?

[dtilque]

From the Word Detective:

…the origin of “honky tonk” is actually rather simple. It is almost certainly “echoic” in origin, meaning that “honky tonk” was coined to imitate the actual sound of a raucous saloon, …