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  • noun Plural form of hootenanny.

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Examples

  • They sang them at marches and at popular sing-along sessions known as hootenannies.

    News 2012

  • Here's a guide to some of the summer's big hootenannies.

    They Will Rock You Craig Winneker 2011

  • The hootenanny of all hootenannies takes place tonight, and my birthday is tomorrow.

    Ten Miles Past Normal Frances O’Roark Dowell 2011

  • Sure, she can help them at their hootenannies and get the "real Americans" all riled up but beyond that, no higher office for her.

    Poll: Majority of Republicans don't think Palin's qualified for prez 2009

  • The hootenanny of all hootenannies takes place tonight, and my birthday is tomorrow.

    Ten Miles Past Normal Frances O’Roark Dowell 2011

  • During high school in the early 1950s, she first encountered progressive political culture by attending hootenannies and Pete Seeger concerts.

    Jewish Women in Civil Rights - Jan Goodman - Interview 2010

  • We have personnel specializing in thematic protests venues, such as, kitchen areas, boys and girls clubs, sleazy biker bars, hootenannies, bucket of blood resorts, as well as other well-known protest locales and events.

    Fill-in-the-Blank Protesting Services 2009

  • The similarities between confidence games and rock concerts, discos, jazz clubs and even hootenannies are represented by much more than simply their reliance on general tactics of impression management, rhetoric and performativity.

    I would've settled for pawning one of them shoes Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • The similarities between confidence games and rock concerts, discos, jazz clubs and even hootenannies are represented by much more than simply their reliance on general tactics of impression management, rhetoric and performativity.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • Marjorie Mazia met Woody Guthrie at the Almanac House in Greenwich Village, where hootenannies (folk music sing-alongs) were held.

    Marjorie Guthrie. 2009

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