Nutbush

English

Etymology

From nut +‎ bush. Origin unknown.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnʌtbʊʃ/

Proper noun

  1. Nutbush, TN: An unincorporated town in Southwest Tennessee, about which Tina Turner wrote the 1973 song Nutbush City Limits.
    • 1973, Tina Turner, “Nutbush City Limits”:
      [...] On highway number nineteen [...] They call it Nutbush city [...] Little old town in Tennessee [...] a quiet, little old community; A one-horse town.
  2. Nutbush, Memphis: A neighborhood in Northeast Memphis, TN, originally settled by migrants from the town.
  3. the Nutbush: A line dance popular in Australia that is danced to the song.
    • 2015, Catherine Therese, The Weight of Silence: A Memoir, →ISBN:
      [A]fter spilling a coke [...] all down my front when some idiot doing the Nutbush elbowed my can.
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