English

Noun

hoedown ‎(plural hoedowns)

1. 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)

     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.

2. The type of music typically played for such a dance
3. A gathering at which such dances take place.

   We have to get to the hoedown before noon, or we'll be late.

See also

• breakdown
• hoedown on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

hoedown ‎(third-person singular simple present hoedowns, present participle hoedowning, simple past and past participle hoedowned)

1. 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)

     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

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