A matching card game, combining features of knock rummy and conquian.
tonk
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for tonk.
Editorial note
My cofounder (incidentally, the creator of the Tonk Hawk Pro Skater franchise), describes it as due to a market reality.
Quick take
A matching card game, combining features of knock rummy and conquian.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of tonk gathered in one view.
A sound produced by knocking on something hollow.
A Tonkinese cat.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for tonk.
noun
A matching card game, combining features of knock rummy and conquian.
noun
A sound produced by knocking on something hollow.
noun
A Tonkinese cat.
noun
A district of Rajasthan, India.
Example sentences
My cofounder (incidentally, the creator of the Tonk Hawk Pro Skater franchise), describes it as due to a market reality.
Dwight Yoakam is from Kentucky but made all his money doing Honky Tonk in Los Angeles of all places...
Let me guess - the honky tonk doesn't have to, but if you're booking rap acts....
My other friend wants to start a honky tonk in his hometown, he's in construction but was also quite interested.
Thank goodness Honky Tonk Train Blues by Meade Lux Lewis will finally be public domain.
Not honky tonk, but when I discovered the collection of Japanese tributes to (once great) The Muffs [1].
Listening to Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou on Spotify, sounds to me like an old honky tonk solo piano recording from before world war 2.
But Liberace might be spinning in his grave…I ran his data into the Honky Tonk Piano.
While we are at it, why not add a Tonk mode using which thick paint can be lifted off the surface without smudging.
I still haven't quite figured out what a Honkey Tonk is.
> Listening to Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou on Spotify, sounds to me like an old honky tonk solo piano recording from before world war 2.
A very small gap gives a subtle chorus effect, a little wider takes one into honky-tonk piano territory, and wider still perhaps more like a bell, but still sounding like one note.
Quote examples
Similar to a "honky tonk" piano: if you tuned it differently, it would come across as a timbre change more than simply "better" tuning.
In 2018 I had the pleasure of seeing "Elvis" at a Kyoto nightclub called "Live Spot Nashville" (closed since the pandemic) which was decked out like a cross between an American honky-tonk bar and the Grand Ole Opry.
I went from "there is no way I can play a musical instrument, I have to just accept this in my life & move on." to being able to sit down at a piano in any bar, and slam out some fun honky tonk / blues.
Proper noun examples
I love my bike, a 12 year old (maybe more) Kona Honky Tonk.
The 3 top grossing films of 1941 the year of Citizen Kane: * Sergeant York, a superhero war propaganda film * Honky Tonk, a racy Clark Gable / Lana Turner western * Louisiana Purchase, a zany Bob Hope musical For the record, Citizen Kane was a flop, and there were many excellent movies made this year.
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use tonk in a sentence?
My cofounder (incidentally, the creator of the Tonk Hawk Pro Skater franchise), describes it as due to a market reality.
What does tonk mean?
A matching card game, combining features of knock rummy and conquian.
What part of speech is tonk?
tonk is commonly used as noun.