Dictionary

jukebox en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈd͡ʒuːkbɒks/ (Australia, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈd͡ʒukˌbɑks/ (General-American)
• (General-American) audio

Etymology

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.

Meanings

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. 1939 December 18, Life, p. 27:
   • "I love rock 'n roll So put another dime in the jukebox, baby I love rock 'n roll So come and take your time and dance with me" 1975 July, Alan Merrill, Jake Hooker, “I Love Rock 'n' Roll”, in I Love Rock 'n Roll, performed by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, published January 1982:
2. (broadly) 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. 2011, Keith Underdahl, Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies:
3. An automated carousel for the storage and retrieval of tapes, CD-ROMs, etc.
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of jukebox musical.
   alt of jukebox musical
   • Jukeboxes have frequently been compared to the megamusicals and are considered a direct offshoot. 2022, Kevin Byrne, Emily Fuchs, The Jukebox Musical: An Interpretive History, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

Forms

Deriveds

video jukebox · jukeboxlike · jukebox soundtrack · jukie · jukebox musical

Relateds

Nickelodeon

Translations (59)

pl szafa grająca (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · pt juke-box (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · de Musikautomat (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · aht tnelzaeli (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · es rocola (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · gv kishtey kiaullee (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · ru проигрыватель-автомат (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · mr ज्युकबॉक्स (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · ca jukebox (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · mr ज्युकबॉक्स (an automated carousel) · nn jukeboks (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · et jukeboks (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · el τζουκμπόξ (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · nb jukeboks (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · ru музыка́льный автома́т (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · pl jukebox (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · et muusikaautomaat (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · ca màquina tocadiscos (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · pl karuzela automatyczna (an automated carousel) · fi jukeboksi (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · id kotak juke (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · fr juke-box (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · cmn 點唱機 /点唱机 (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · et leierkast (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · ko 주크박스 (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · ka პატეფონ-ავტომატი (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · de Musikbox (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · ar جُوكْبُوكْس (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · ja ジュークボックス (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · da jukeboks (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · es gramola (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · es tragadieces (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · hy երաժշտական ավտոմատ (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · cmn 換碟機 /换碟机 (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · is glymskratti (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · sh sviralica (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · fr jukebox (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · cs hudební automat (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · th ตู้เพลง (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · da grammofonautomat (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · sv jukebox (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · es máquina de discos (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · es vitrola (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · fi levyautomaatti (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · it juke-box (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · es cinquera (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · eo diskogurdo (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · de Jukebox (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · ja 自動演奏機 (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · cmn 光碟櫃 /光碟柜 (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · km ម៉ាស៊ីនចាក់ថាសភ្លេង (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · cs jukebox (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · et mündipleier (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · ro tonomat (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · cy sgrechflwch (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · es sinfonola (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · hu wurlitzer (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · nl jukebox (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music) · cy jiwcbocs (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music)

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jukebox en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈd͡ʒuːkbɒks/ (Australia, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈd͡ʒukˌbɑks/ (General-American)
• (General-American) audio

Etymology

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.

Meanings

1. To play and listen to music from a jukebox.
   • Behind the counter, repairing a clogged sink and making chocolate egg creams at the same time, to jukebox riffs of Patti LaBelle singing "I Sold My Heart to the Junkman," was the proprietor, Rudy. 2008, Cullen Dorn, The Hierophant of 100th Street: Known to the Spirits as Infinitude, →ISBN:
   • In the Mayfield Days everybody smoked so they all smelled good, teeth as white and wild as urinal cakes, chattered and jukeboxed into the slurring sunset when the real drunks came in Fresh off some shift furnace soot still in their hair 2010, Craig Sipe, Hero Sandwich, →ISBN, page 37:
   • Haven't you ever wasted money jukeboxing in the bars that are bathed in pastis and grenadine? 1966, Xavier Domingo, The dreams of reason: a novel, page 75:
   • She'd been forty-four, him forty-two when they met, both of them drinking a little too much, both of them fed up with romance. She'd said she'd been jukeboxed half to death. 2004, Mary Sojourner, Delicate: Stories, →ISBN, page 238:
2. (transitive) To play (music or digital content) on a jukebox
   • They are everywhere today, whistled in the streets, broadcasted, jukeboxed, danced to in ballrooms. 1950, Arnold Gingrich, Coronet - Volume 29, page 52:
   • BMI members are turning out some perfectly terrible songs which nevertheless are recorded and jukeboxed and played on the air. 1957, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Monopoly Problems in Regulated Industries:
   • I'm no longer thinking about TV as real time content streaming, but rather as file jukeboxing. 2002, The Cook Report on Internet, NREN. - Volume 11, page 61:
3. (broadly) 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 ... 2007, Alan A. Gillis, Hawks and doves, page 18:
   • Another one of her sister's old records jukeboxed on in her head. 2012, Steven Wishnia, When the Drumming Stops, →ISBN:
4. To format or set up for playing by a jukebox.
   • Whether discs holding only a hundred images, even if "jukeboxed" in a CD-ROM drive, will be of practical use for large image collections remains to be seen, but at the very least the Photo CD will offer a relatively inexpensive method of obtaining a modest collection of digitized color images. 1992, Visual Resources Association Bulletin - Volumes 19-20, page 38:
   • Jukeboxing can put nearly 20-36 GB of information at users disposal. 1994, Library Science with a Slant to Documentation and Information Studies:
   • 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. 1984, The Journal of Information and Image Management:

Forms

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