jukebox

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Synonyms for jukebox

noun device playing music

Word Origin & History

1937, jook organ, from jook joint "roadhouse" (1935), Black English slang, from juke, joog "wicked, disorderly," in Gullah (the creolized English of the coastlands of South Carolina, Georgia, and northern Florida), probably from Wolof and Bambara dzug "unsavory." Said to have originated in central Florida (see "A Note on Juke," Florida Review, vol. VII, no. 3, spring 1938). The spelling with a -u- might represent a deliberate attempt to put distance between the word and its origins.

Example Sentences for jukebox

Thoughtfully sipping my beer I heard him dial and report a jukebox out of order.

While Harry was drawing the beer I walked string straight to the jukebox, clicked in a quarter, and stalked back to the barstool.

I told her the jukebox and the television set were out of commission and there'd be no noise she didn't make herself.

At Art's that night I listened with envy to the words that were used over the telephone when the jukebox gave up its ghost.

He pushed in through the outer and inner doors, and he heard the burst of music from the jukebox.

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