hootenannie

A folk music jam session.

I hear that Neil Young will be playing at the fairgrounds hootenannie this week.

by Bud Beam July 11, 2017

Hootenanny

A gathering of like-minded people with folk music sometimes incorporating dancing, with no less than four fat girls and hosted by your favorite local feed store.

Hey I heard Palo Cedro feed was having a hootenanny September 8th we should go down there is going to be no less than for fat girls and beer.

by Feed store mafia September 1, 2018

Hootenanny

Original meaning is a thingamajig in US slang and it can be used to conceal the meaning from children, strangers etc. Usually tools. In the later 20th Century it came to mean an informal party with music.

Don dropped his spanner under the hood. Dang! Pass me my hootenanny.

by The Fat Welshman August 5, 2021

hootenanny

"festa"

"Wright has to be given credit for parading his anticapitalist sensibilities, but his critique reads like a lecture at the hootenanny weekend of the Socialist Hiking Club, Berkeley Chapter."

In: Jacoby, Russell. "Real Men Find Real Utopias." Dissent (Winter 2011), accessed January 15, 2020 at dissentmagazineorg/article/real-men-find-real-utopias

by Valued Cardholder January 15, 2020