hoedown

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US/ˈhoʊdaʊn/

noun

A type of American folk or square dance.

“John and Susie went to the square dance and did the hoedown.”

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Meanings

nounhoedown (plural hoedowns)

plural hoedowns

  1. A type of American folk or square dance.

    John and Susie went to the square dance and did the hoedown.

    1 more example

    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.

    2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, The Guardian
  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.

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

present singular third person hoedowns · participle present hoedowning · participle past hoedowned · past hoedowned

  1. To dance a hoedown dance

    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 November 15, Tom Lamont, The Daily Telegraph

Origin

1835–45, Americanism; hoe + down, a social gathering taking place once work is over, i.e., when tillers and farm workers put their hoes down.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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