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"ref": "2011, Nelson Algren, Never Come Morning",
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"ref": "2018 October 5, Patrick St. Michel, “The Inventive World of Japan’s Juke and Footwork Scene”, in Bandcamp Daily",
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"ref": "1941 December, Arthur K. Moore, “Jouk”, in American Speech, page 319",
"text": "‘Let's jouk’ is an invitation to dance, but ‘Let's go joukin’’ is a request for a date.",
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"ref": "1958, Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending, New York: New Directions, →OCLC",
"text": "I want you to go juking with me... that's riding and stopping to drink and dance",
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"ref": "1992, Ed McBain, Kiss",
"text": "\"None of the Latinos liked him.\"\n\"So now he's dead.\"\n\"So go talk to the other ten thousand people could've juked him.\"",
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"ref": "2007 February 9, “Teenager filmed by friend as he stabbed 16-year-old student to death”, in Mail Online",
"text": "On the internet that night Asghar told a friend: \"I'll bang him and then f*** it man, might as well juke [stab] him up tomorrow.\"",
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"ref": "2012, Russell Banks, Book of Jamaica",
"text": "He beat me up a couple of times, and I got scared, so one night when he started up again, I just juked him. Three times in the chest, and it still didn't kill him! But I had to go to jail for a whole year.",
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"ref": "2018, “Musty” (track 13), in Ohgeesy (lyrics), Shoreline Mafia (music), ShorelineDoThatShit (Rerelease)",
"text": "Got a ratchet lil bitch and she from Inglewood\nI'm moving around, I do nothing but jugg\nI'm fucking these ho like a young nigga should\nAnd you'd do the same if you young niggas could",
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"ref": "2022 January 4, “Still”, YR (lyrics), P110, 0:49",
"text": "Still pushing Zs and I don’t mean freezing\nI am still jugging\nThe stripper so hugging\nThe girl still super-bad, missed them a loving",
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"ref": "2015, Rick Campbell, Empire Rising",
"text": "Just before the Hongqi closed to within range of its proximity fuse, Vandal juked hard left and kicked in his afterburners. The first missile sped by without detonating. Vandal juked hard left again, completing a 180-degree turn.",
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"ref": "2008, Anthony Swofford, Exit A",
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"ref": "2015, Peter Guy George, The Tony Crowne Mysteries Box Set: Books 1-3",
"text": "He juked Judd out of his shoes, reversed his field, juked Tony, juked Nick, and pretty much juked the entire Bobcats kickoff team on the way to a seventy-two yard return for a touchdown.",
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"ref": "1692, Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists with morals and reflexions, London: R. Sare [et alia], →OCLC, Two Laden Asses",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2010, Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul, The Silent Sea",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2012, Dennis E. Showalter, Harold C. Deutsch, If the Allies Had Fallen: Sixty Alternate Scenarios of World War II, page 84",
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"ref": "2013, David Bzdak, Joanna Crosby, Seth Vannatta, The Wire and Philosophy: This America, Man, page 75",
"text": "As Roland “Prez” Pryzbylewski knows, there's another problem with treating good stats as good work: They can be juked. “All this so we score higher on the state tests? If we're teaching the kids the test questions, what is assessing in them?\"",
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"ref": "2014, William Deresiewicz, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life, page 35",
"text": "Schools are ever more adept at juking their admissions stats, using aggressive marketing practices to gin up larger and larger numbers of applicants, many of whom they know they'll never admit (the so-called “attract to reject” strategy)",
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"ref": "2012, Dennis E. Showalter, Harold C. Deutsch, If the Allies Had Fallen: Sixty Alternate Scenarios of World War II, page 84",
"text": "Veteran pilots “juked” their bombers to throw off the gunners' aim.",
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"ref": "2013, David Bzdak, Joanna Crosby, Seth Vannatta, The Wire and Philosophy: This America, Man, page 75",
"text": "As Roland “Prez” Pryzbylewski knows, there's another problem with treating good stats as good work: They can be juked. “All this so we score higher on the state tests? If we're teaching the kids the test questions, what is assessing in them?\"",
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"ref": "2014, William Deresiewicz, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life, page 35",
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