"jukebox" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈd͡ʒuːkbɒks/ [General-Australian, Received-Pronunciation], /ˈd͡ʒukbɑks/ [General-American] Forms: jukeboxes [plural]
Etymology: 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 templates: {{compound|en|juke|box|gloss1=roadside café}} juke (“roadside café”) + box Head templates: {{en-noun}} jukebox (plural jukeboxes)
  1. A coin-operated machine that plays recorded music; it has push-buttons to make selections. Translations (a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music): جُوكْبُوكْس (jukbuks) [masculine] (Arabic), երաժշտական ավտոմատ (eražštakan avtomat) (Armenian), 點唱機 (Chinese Mandarin), 点唱机 (diǎnchàngjī) (Chinese Mandarin), 換碟機 (Chinese Mandarin), 换碟机 (huàndiéjī) (Chinese Mandarin), 光碟櫃 (Chinese Mandarin), 光碟柜 (guāngdiéguì) (Chinese Mandarin), jukebox [masculine] (Czech), hudební automat [masculine] (Czech), jukeboks [common-gender] (Danish), grammofonautomat [common-gender] (Danish), jukebox [masculine] (Dutch), diskogurdo (Esperanto), levyautomaatti (Finnish), jukeboksi (Finnish), juke-box [masculine] (French), პატეფონ-ავტომატი (ṗaṭepon-avṭomaṭi) (Georgian), Musikautomat [masculine] (German), Musikbox [feminine] (German), Jukebox [feminine] (German), τζουκμπόξ (tzoukmpóx) [neuter] (Greek), glymskratti [masculine] (Icelandic), juke-box [masculine] (Italian), ジュークボックス (jūkubokkusu) (Japanese), 自動演奏機 (jidō ensōki) (alt: じどうえんそうき) (Japanese), ម៉ាស៊ីនចាក់ថាសភ្លេង (maasɨn cak tʰaah pleeŋ) (Khmer), kishtey kiaullee [masculine] (Manx), jukeboks [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), jukeboks [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), szafa grająca [feminine] (Polish), jukebox [masculine] (Polish), juke-box [feminine] (Portuguese), tonomat [neuter] (Romanian), проигрыватель-автомат (proigryvatelʹ-avtomat) [masculine] (Russian), музыка́льный автома́т (muzykálʹnyj avtomát) [masculine] (Russian), sviralica [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), máquina de discos [feminine] (Spanish), gramola [feminine] (Spanish), jukebox [common-gender] (Swedish), ตู้เพลง (dtûu-pleeng) (Thai), jiwcbocs (Welsh), sgrechflwch (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-jukebox-en-noun-7nj2WIIH Disambiguation of 'a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music': 93 1 2 4
  2. (computing) An automated carousel for the storage and retrieval of tapes, CD-ROMs, etc. Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-jukebox-en-noun-LBzSnEt~ Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
  3. (computing, by extension) A software application capable of replaying tracks from a digital music collection. Tags: broadly Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-jukebox-en-noun-7F59nleT Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
  4. (theater) Ellipsis of jukebox musical. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Alternative form of: jukebox musical Categories (topical): Theater
    Sense id: en-jukebox-en-noun-l3QjSUHL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 15 11 47 3 4 3 6 Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, theater
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: juke box Derived forms: jukebox musical, jukebox soundtrack, video jukebox Related terms: Nickelodeon

Verb

IPA: /ˈd͡ʒuːkbɒks/ [General-Australian, Received-Pronunciation], /ˈd͡ʒukbɑks/ [General-American] Forms: jukeboxes [present, singular, third-person], jukeboxing [participle, present], jukeboxed [participle, past], jukeboxed [past]
Etymology: 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 templates: {{compound|en|juke|box|gloss1=roadside café}} juke (“roadside café”) + box Head templates: {{en-verb}} jukebox (third-person singular simple present jukeboxes, present participle jukeboxing, simple past and past participle jukeboxed)
  1. To play and listen to music from a jukebox.
    Sense id: en-jukebox-en-verb-~MFGwdTF
  2. (transitive) To play (music or digital content) on a jukebox Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-jukebox-en-verb-3avbGVNG
  3. (by extension) To play or repeat as if on a jukebox. Tags: broadly
    Sense id: en-jukebox-en-verb-T6eqbCf5
  4. To format or set up for playing by a jukebox.
    Sense id: en-jukebox-en-verb-9NH00mH~
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: juke box

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "sense": "a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music",
          "word": "自動演奏機"
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          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
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          "word": "szafa grająca"
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          "word": "tonomat"
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          "_dis1": "93 1 2 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "proigryvatelʹ-avtomat",
          "sense": "a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "проигрыватель-автомат"
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          "_dis1": "93 1 2 4",
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          "roman": "muzykálʹnyj avtomát",
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          "word": "музыка́льный автома́т"
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          "_dis1": "93 1 2 4",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "sviralica"
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          "_dis1": "93 1 2 4",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "máquina de discos"
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        {
          "_dis1": "93 1 2 4",
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          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "gramola"
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          "lang": "Swedish",
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        {
          "_dis1": "93 1 2 4",
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "dtûu-pleeng",
          "sense": "a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music",
          "word": "ตู้เพลง"
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          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music",
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        {
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          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music",
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          "ref": "2022, Kevin Byrne, Emily Fuchs, The Jukebox Musical: An Interpretive History, Taylor & Francis",
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          "ref": "2004, Mary Sojourner, Delicate: Stories, page 238",
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          "ref": "2008, Cullen Dorn, The Hierophant of 100th Street: Known to the Spirits as Infinitude",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2010, Craig Sipe, Hero Sandwich, page 37",
          "text": "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",
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          "ref": "1957, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Monopoly Problems in Regulated Industries",
          "text": "BMI members are turning out some perfectly terrible songs which nevertheless are recorded and jukeboxed and played on the air.",
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          "ref": "2002, The Cook Report on Internet, NREN. - Volume 11, page 61",
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          "text": "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 ...",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "2012, Steven Wishnia, When the Drumming Stops",
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      "sense": "a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music",
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      "word": "جُوكْبُوكْس"
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      "roman": "eražštakan avtomat",
      "sense": "a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music",
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      "sense": "a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music",
      "word": "點唱機"
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      "sense": "a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music",
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      "roman": "huàndiéjī",
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
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      "sense": "a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music",
      "word": "光碟櫃"
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    {
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      "roman": "guāngdiéguì",
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      "sense": "a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music",
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      "sense": "a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music",
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      "sense": "a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music",
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      "code": "ka",
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      "roman": "ṗaṭepon-avṭomaṭi",
      "sense": "a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music",
      "word": "პატეფონ-ავტომატი"
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      "code": "ja",
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      "roman": "jidō ensōki",
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      "roman": "maasɨn cak tʰaah pleeŋ",
      "sense": "a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music",
      "word": "ម៉ាស៊ីនចាក់ថាសភ្លេង"
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      "code": "gv",
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      "sense": "a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music",
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      "word": "kishtey kiaullee"
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      "code": "nb",
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      "code": "nn",
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      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music",
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      "word": "szafa grająca"
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      "sense": "a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music",
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      "code": "pt",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "juke-box"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
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      "sense": "a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music",
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      "word": "tonomat"
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      "word": "проигрыватель-автомат"
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      "roman": "muzykálʹnyj avtomát",
      "sense": "a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music",
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      "word": "музыка́льный автома́т"
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      "sense": "a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music",
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      "word": "sviralica"
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      "sense": "a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music",
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      "word": "máquina de discos"
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  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "jukebox (third-person singular simple present jukeboxes, present participle jukeboxing, simple past and past participle jukeboxed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "juke‧box"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1966, Xavier Domingo, The dreams of reason: a novel, page 75",
          "text": "Haven't you ever wasted money jukeboxing in the bars that are bathed in pastis and grenadine?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Mary Sojourner, Delicate: Stories, page 238",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Cullen Dorn, The Hierophant of 100th Street: Known to the Spirits as Infinitude",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Craig Sipe, Hero Sandwich, page 37",
          "text": "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",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To play and listen to music from a jukebox."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "play",
          "play"
        ],
        [
          "listen",
          "listen"
        ],
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1950, Arnold Gingrich, Coronet - Volume 29, page 52",
          "text": "They are everywhere today, whistled in the streets, broadcasted, jukeboxed, danced to in ballrooms.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1957, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Monopoly Problems in Regulated Industries",
          "text": "BMI members are turning out some perfectly terrible songs which nevertheless are recorded and jukeboxed and played on the air.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, The Cook Report on Internet, NREN. - Volume 11, page 61",
          "text": "I'm no longer thinking about TV as real time content streaming, but rather as file jukeboxing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To play (music or digital content) on a jukebox"
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To play (music or digital content) on a jukebox"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Alan A. Gillis, Hawks and doves, page 18",
          "text": "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 ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Steven Wishnia, When the Drumming Stops",
          "text": "Another one of her sister's old records jukeboxed on in her head.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To play or repeat as if on a jukebox."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) To play or repeat as if on a jukebox."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1984, The Journal of Information and Image Management",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Visual Resources Association Bulletin - Volumes 19-20, page 38",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Library Science with a Slant to Documentation and Information Studies",
          "text": "Jukeboxing can put nearly 20-36 GB of information at users disposal.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To format or set up for playing by a jukebox."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈd͡ʒuːkbɒks/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈd͡ʒukbɑks/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "juke box"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Michael Quinion"
  ],
  "word": "jukebox"
}

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