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Juke

//d͡ʒuːk// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution. Southern-US, countable
  2. 2
    A feint. slang
  3. 3
    (football) a deceptive move made by a football player wordnet
  4. 4
    Clipping of jukebox. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable

    "The juke played five times for a quarter and she never wearied of tapping. Nor did she tire of the same record five times in a row; she was too indolent to select more than one number."

  5. 5
    The neck of a bird. slang
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  1. 6
    a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox wordnet
  2. 7
    A genre of electronic music native to Chicago, noted for its fast, abstract rhythms; see footwork. uncountable

    "All Kouichi Furutono wanted to do was expose Japanese audiences to the skittering sounds of Chicago juke music."

Verb
  1. 1
    To play dance music, or to dance, in a juke.

    "‘Let's jouk’ is an invitation to dance, but ‘Let's go joukin’’ is a request for a date."

  2. 2
    To hit. slang
  3. 3
    To deceive or outmaneuver someone using a feint, especially in American football or soccer. intransitive, slang

    "Turning the Vikings'¯ blitz against them, Westbrook took a screen pass from Donovan McNabb, then juked and scooted 71 yards for a touchdown."

  4. 4
    To stab. slang

    ""None of the Latinos liked him." "So now he's dead." "So go talk to the other ten thousand people could've juked him.""

  5. 5
    To deceive or outmaneuver, using a feint. slang, transitive

    "The runner juked Connor, the runner juked Smith, and Severin centered on him; he was five yards out, he screamed, he was a yard out, he screamed, he hit the kid so hard that both of their helmets flew off their heads."

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  1. 6
    To thrust with the pelvis, in particular for sexual intercourse. slang

    "Got a ratchet lil bitch and she from Inglewood I'm moving around, I do nothing but jugg I'm fucking these ho like a young nigga should And you'd do the same if you young niggas could"

  2. 7
    To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head. intransitive, slang

    "The Money-Merchant, I warrant ye, was ſo Proud of his Truſt, and of his Bell, that he went Juking and Toſſing of his Head, and Tabring with his Feet all the way, as if no Ground would hold him."

  3. 8
    To manipulate deceptively. slang, transitive

    "The pilot instinctively juked the nimble chopper, but with so many bullets in the air, and so many of them spreading far from their intended target, it was impossible to evade them all."

  4. 9
    To interrupt a conversation with an unrelated topic. slang, transitive

    "Smith likes juking religion when talking with his family at dinner."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Gullah juke, jook, joog (“wicked, disorderly”) (compare Wolof and Bambara dzug (“unsavory”)).

Etymology 2

From Gullah juke, jook, joog (“wicked, disorderly”) (compare Wolof and Bambara dzug (“unsavory”)).

Etymology 3

From Jamaican Creole jook.

Etymology 4

Uncertain. Perhaps from Scots jouk, jowk, juke (“to elude, cheat; duck, skulk; bob, dodge”), palatalized variants of Scots deuk, douk, dowk (“to duck”). More at duck (verb).

Etymology 5

Uncertain. Perhaps from Scots jouk, jowk, juke (“to elude, cheat; duck, skulk; bob, dodge”), palatalized variants of Scots deuk, douk, dowk (“to duck”). More at duck (verb).

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