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 (lyrics and music), “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.