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means A lively social gathering built around folk or square dancing, with a caller shouting out the steps and a fiddle doing most of the talking.

from American in origin, tied to the rural South and the world of plantation and farm labor. The leading theory links it to 'hoe,' as in the farm tool — the word first referred to the end of a day's hoeing, when field hands would unwind with music and dancing, and the name for the party borrowed the name of the work that came before it. Some early uses also pointed to 'breaking down' or stomping dances. Either way, it's a word with dirt still on its boots — born from labor, kept alive as leisure.