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Jukebox

//ˈd͡ʒuːkbɒks// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A coin-operated machine that plays recorded music, with push-buttons to make selections.

    "Glenn Miller plays more sweet numbers than hot. His greatest success has been with the “juke boxes”, the nickel-in-a-slot automatic phonographs. Miller is easily the most outstanding juke-box artist of 1939."

  2. 2
    a cabinet containing an automatic record player; records are played by inserting a coin wordnet
  3. 3
    A software application capable of replaying tracks from a digital music collection. broadly

    "Before you export a movie to tape, double-check the following: Make sure all unnecessary programs are closed, including your e-mail program, MP3 jukebox, and Web browser."

  4. 4
    An automated carousel for the storage and retrieval of tapes, CD-ROMs, etc.
  5. 5
    Ellipsis of jukebox musical. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

    "Jukeboxes have frequently been compared to the megamusicals and are considered a direct offshoot."

Verb
  1. 1
    To play and listen to music from a jukebox.

    "Haven't you ever wasted money jukeboxing in the bars that are bathed in pastis and grenadine?"

  2. 2
    To play (music or digital content) on a jukebox transitive

    "They are everywhere today, whistled in the streets, broadcasted, jukeboxed, danced to in ballrooms."

  3. 3
    To play or repeat as if on a jukebox. broadly

    "Foamy-chopped dogs frisk the pavements for barf-free kebab or hot dropped fry, mobiles trilling de-daw-de-dee theme tunes, their birdsong jukeboxing the cigarette air as rain falls from a plum sky ..."

  4. 4
    To format or set up for playing by a jukebox.

    "And best of all, per-document-stored cost will be substantially under what it is on spinning spindles alone or when the disks are jukeboxed."

Etymology

Etymology 1

1939, juke (“roadside café”) + box, replacing older collocational terms such as nickel-in-a-slot phonograph, coin-in-the-slot phonograph, and coin-operated phonograph.

Etymology 2

1939, juke (“roadside café”) + box, replacing older collocational terms such as nickel-in-a-slot phonograph, coin-in-the-slot phonograph, and coin-operated phonograph.

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