Slang term for a white man, originating, according to a comment in the book "Beneath the underdog" by Charles Mingus, (not verbatim)
"A white man looking for a prostitute in early 20th Century Harlem who, because he didn't want to get out of his car to call a girl, he just honked to get the girls attention"
I think this is the most plausible definition.
"A white man looking for a prostitute in early 20th Century Harlem who, because he didn't want to get out of his car to call a girl, he just honked to get the girls attention"
I think this is the most plausible definition.
by Mingusfan April 15, 2006

Originally "hunkie," a variation on "bohunk," a derogatory term for Eastern-European factory hands and mostly used in midwestern cities. Became corrupted to "honky"(factory hand) in the late 20s-early 30s(see Mezz Mezzrow's REALLY THE BLUES). By the late fifties came to mean blue collar whites and by the sixties white people in general.
by Lord Invader October 18, 2003

by Grumpy_Eel February 17, 2005

The only word you couldn't understand in Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' "Thrift Shop". So you decided to look it up in urban dictionary, so you can be indie and use a 1920's colloquialism that no one understands.
Thrift Shop fan boy 1: I should look up honkie in urban dictionary seeing as it is the only word I couldn't understand in Thrift Shop.
Thrift Shop fan boy 2: So you can be indie and use a 1920's colloquialism that no one understands?
Thrift Shop fan boy 1: Damn right.
Thrift Shop fan boy 2: So you can be indie and use a 1920's colloquialism that no one understands?
Thrift Shop fan boy 1: Damn right.
by TheRazorSoft March 22, 2013

by Mr. X-106 October 2, 2003

by Andrew September 1, 2004
