hoedown
English
Etymology
1835–45, Americanism; hoe + down. Social gathering after work time has finished
Noun
hoedown (plural hoedowns)
- A type of American folk or square dance.
- John and Susie went to the square dance and did the hoedown.
- 2012, Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world (in The Guardian, 15 November 2012)[1]
- Soon Marshall is doing an elaborate foot-to-foot jig, and then they're all bounding around. Shoulder dips. Yee-ha faces. It's an impromptu hoedown.
- The type of music typically played for such a dance
- A gathering at which such dances take place.
- We have to get to the hoedown before noon, or we'll be late.
Verb
hoedown (third-person singular simple present hoedowns, present participle hoedowning, simple past and past participle hoedowned)
- To dance a hoedown dance
- 2012, Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world (in The Daily Telegraph, 15 November 2012)[2]
- Having spent the day in the company of this thoughtful, friendly, uncommonly levelheaded band – charmed, completely – a protective part of me sort of wishes they wouldn't hoedown
- 2012, Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world (in The Daily Telegraph, 15 November 2012)[2]
