jukebox
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jukebox
- /ˈd͡ʒuːkbɒks/ Australia, UK
- /ˈd͡ʒukˌbɑks/ US
Where it comes from
First use appears c. 1939, from juke (“roadside café”) + box, replacing older collocational terms such as nickel-in-a-slot phonograph, coin-in-the-slot phonograph, and coin-operated phonograph.
noun jukeboxes · juke box
- 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.
- A software application capable of replaying tracks from a digital music collection. 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.
- An automated carousel for the storage and retrieval of tapes, CD-ROMs, etc.
- Ellipsis of jukebox musical.jukebox musical Jukeboxes have frequently been compared to the megamusicals and are considered a direct offshoot.
verb jukeboxes · jukeboxing · jukeboxed · juke box
- 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?
- To play (music or digital content) on a jukebox They are everywhere today, whistled in the streets, broadcasted, jukeboxed, danced to in ballrooms.
- To play or repeat as if on a jukebox. 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 ...
- 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.
