📚 Hootenanny, noun. ❓ Definition (mainly US • informal): An informal gathering with folk music. ❗️ Examples: 1. We invited friends to a hootenanny in our backyard. 2. Hootenanny numbers. 3. And unlike the preceding White Album, the jumbled juxtaposition of forms - faux-blues toss-offs, stately piano ballads, folkie hootenannies - feels less like a band overflowing with inspired ideas than one running out of them. 4. Music lovers spent less time getting together for hootenannies on the porch or jam sessions around a piano. 5. Performing a live version of ‘Don't Think Twice, It's Alright,’ Elliott tells a story about the first time he sang it at a hootenanny in New York, with Dylan in the audience. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic