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  • noun Plural form of hoedown.

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Examples

  • Other than watching his family perform, Miller says that his favorite part of calling the hoedowns is seeing smiles on the faces in the crowd.

    Columnist: Stephen Miller 2010

  • In addition to calling the hoedowns, Lester Miller and his brothers will be performing a cappella

    Columnist: Stephen Miller 2010

  • And I always bought from the soliciting neighborhood children - crappy chocolate filled with puffed rice, cookies named "hoedowns" and "thin mints", decorative tins of popcorn and spice racks galore - so that their team, band and/or choir could get to wherever the hell they were going. ... remember me this way.

    amishboy Diary Entry amishboy 2003

  • Without her band in tow, expect stripped-down versions of her herky-jerky hoedowns: the best way to enjoy Thao's enchanting hiccup of a voice.

    Nightlife Agenda: Chromeo, Monotonix and parties for charity Fritz Hahn 2011

  • Perhaps we can do the same in western Pennsylvania and Ohio and Indiana - we'll have hoedowns and square-dances and prayer meetings and whiskey and make the whole lot of them happily drunk and content enough for inaction.

    Richard Schiff: As My Household Shows, We're a Divided Nation 2008

  • Credits include the ongoing investigation of X Governor Eliot Spitzer's money-laundered hoedowns.

    The Albany Show/See Bruno Go/Did Spitzer Know? 2008

  • Blitzen Trapper : It took a while for Wild Mountain Nation itself and I to become friends, but from the first time I saw Blitzen Trapper onstage I wanted them to play at all of my glam rock robot hoedowns for the rest of time.

    bumbershoot 2008 : monday agenda, wherein we tell you how to spend your labor day | Seattle Metblogs 2008

  • It ranges from raw Mississippi Delta blues to sophisticated urban jazz, from barn-dance hoedowns to what Wyatt says is a polka by musicians from the Cape Verde Islands-though with those tangolike twitchings in the rhythm guitar, you might dislocate something if you tried your usual Frank Yankovic moves.

    Arts Extra: A Mix Of The Sort Of Famous And The Obscure 2007

  • For more than a year now, Bill Gates has appeared at computer shows, captain-of-industry hoedowns and, for all we know, weddings and bar mitzvahs, waving what looks like a bulked-up Etch A Sketch, and saying that the tablet will smite the laptop.

    Pc Prescription: Tablet 2007

  • Like a lot of you on this page, I go to a lot of festivals, gatherings, hoedowns and whatnot.

    The Rainbow connection | Jewschool 2007

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