Nutbush

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/ˈnʌtbʊʃ/

proper noun

Nutbush, TN: An unincorporated town in Southwest Tennessee, about which Tina Turner wrote the 1973 song Nutbush City Limits.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. Nutbush, TN: An unincorporated town in Southwest Tennessee, about which Tina Turner wrote the 1973 song Nutbush City Limits.

    [...] On highway number nineteen [...] They call it Nutbush city [...] Little old town in Tennessee [...] a quiet, little old community; A one-horse town.

    1973, Tina Turner, “Nutbush City Limits”
  2. Nutbush, Memphis: A neighborhood in Northeast Memphis, TN, originally settled by migrants from the town.
  3. the Nutbush: A line dance popular in Australia that is danced to the song.

    [A]fter spilling a coke [...] all down my front when some idiot doing the Nutbush elbowed my can.

    2015, Catherine Therese, The Weight of Silence: A Memoir, →ISBN

Origin

From nut + bush. Origin unknown.

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APA

Nutbush. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Nutbush

MLA

“Nutbush.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Nutbush. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Nutbush,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Nutbush.

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