juke
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- noun
- /dʒuːk/
- Informal
:
bar
- We spent the evening dancing and enjoying drinks at the local juke joint.
- juke joint
Examples
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Now closed, Smitty's Red Top Lounge was for years one of Clarksdale's most famous juke joints.
Academic text (2018) -
Before Elmo picked up Cathleen, he stopped by J.C. Himes Place, a juke joint where young black men hung out.
Fiction book (1993) -
Let's blow this juke joint.
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And drinking, which is all going on down at that juke joint where she sings.
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Here and there, they stop in at juke joints, listen to music, and dance.
Fiction book (1997) -
A barmaid at a juke joint near the base.
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We was hopin' to serve food at the juke tonight.
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I find the perfect groove in a juke joint or club: friends and strangers dance, people laugh, and buy each other drinks.
Academic text (2018) -
The bluesmen who drew the most attention during the day were hired to play the Saturday night parties held at rural juke joints throughout the countryside.
Academic text (2018) -
I've worked a lot of juke joints, biker bars, and redneck venues.
Blog text (4)
Synonyms
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9.5
A small informal place in the southern United States where people eat, drink, and dance to blues from a jukebox
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A cheap bar or dance hall where people dance to country music
A small informal place where people eat, drink, and dance to jukebox music
A small roadside bar in the southern United States with music and dancing
A small lively place in the southern United States where people eat, drink, and dance to music
A small place in the southern United States where people eat, drink, and dance to jukebox music
Compounds
- Informal
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9.5
A small informal place in the southern United States where people eat, drink, and dance to blues from a jukebox
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Juke (a small roadside bar) comes from a West African word often written jook that meant 'to dance' or 'party'. So a juke was a lively place for music, food and dancing, and the same 'juke' appears in jukebox, which plays that music.