Synonyms for jukebox

Grammar : Noun

Spell : jook-boks

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒukˌbɒks

Définition of jukebox

Origin : 1937, jook organ, from jook joint "roadhouse" (1935), Black English slang, from juke, joog "wicked, disorderly," in Gullah (the creolized English of the coastlands of South Carolina, Georgia, and northern Florida), probably from Wolof and Bambara dzug "unsavory." Said to have originated in central Florida (see "A Note on Juke," Florida Review, vol. VII, no. 3, spring 1938). The spelling with a -u- might represent a deliberate attempt to put distance between the word and its origins.
For a long time the commercial juke trade resisted the name juke box and even tried to raise a big publicity fund to wage a national campaign against it, but "juke box" turned out to be the biggest advertising term that could ever have been invented for the commercial phonograph and spread to the ends of the world during the war as American soldiers went abroad but remembered the juke boxes back home. ["Billboard," Sept. 15, 1945]

As in music box : noun device playing music

Example sentences :

Thoughtfully sipping my beer I heard him dial and report a jukebox out of order.
Extract from : « Cue for Quiet » by Thomas L. Sherred

While Harry was drawing the beer I walked string straight to the jukebox, clicked in a quarter, and stalked back to the barstool.
Extract from : « Cue for Quiet » by Thomas L. Sherred

I told her the jukebox and the television set were out of commission and there'd be no noise she didn't make herself.
Extract from : « Cue for Quiet » by Thomas L. Sherred

At Art's that night I listened with envy to the words that were used over the telephone when the jukebox gave up its ghost.
Extract from : « Cue for Quiet » by Thomas L. Sherred

He pushed in through the outer and inner doors, and he heard the burst of music from the jukebox.
Extract from : « The Man Who Hated Mars » by Gordon Randall Garrett

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