0 in the US, a party, usually in the countryside, where there is traditional music and dancing
Leroy hears music from the backroom and looks in on the hoedown.
In contest fiddling, a hoedown is a tune in fast 2/4 time.
For example a rollerblading hoedown is a similar competitive display.
Hoedown was, and occasionally still is, also used to mean a dance jointly sponsored by several dance clubs or by a federation of clubs.
In the 1940s and early 1950s, the term hoedown was sometimes used to mean a call made up of parts of other calls.
