Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A money-operated phonograph or compact disk player, equipped with pushbuttons for the selection of particular recordings. See Regional Note at juke1.
Wiktionary
- n. A coin-operated machine that plays recorded music; it has push-buttons to make selections.
- n. computing An automated carousel for the storage and retrieval of tapes, CD-ROMs, etc.
- n. computing, by extension A software application capable of replaying tracks from a digital music collection.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A phonograph or compact disc player with multiple discs, requiring the insertion of coins prior to playing, and allowing the user to select the playing of any disc in its inventory. An early version was called the nickelodeon.
- n. (Computers) a data-storage device having multiple compact discs, of which only one may be on-line at any given time, which permits the user (through computer commands) to select on-line access to any disc from its inventory, in a manner reminiscent of a musical jukebox{1}.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a cabinet containing an automatic record player; records are played by inserting a coin
Examples
“I caught that too. jukebox is a real stickler and pedant when it suits him; but truly elastic when it comes to his own dishonest misstatements.”
“However the traditional jukebox is being rapidly replaced with digital download devices (Touchtones seems to be the dominant brand in my area).”
Matthew Yglesias » Jukeboxes are Killing The Recording Industry
“Kern, Sherman and Robot John walk across the planet – and Robot John helpfully plays some music on his built-in jukebox to make the journey pleasant.”
“The novelty tune “Why Don’t We Get Drunk” exceeded 50,000 units in jukebox sales alone shortly after release and was still described by Billboard as a jukebox favorite more than three years later.”
“The danger of a jukebox is that it gets bullied by someone with bad taste (however, since people tend to go places that feature music that’s at least minimally agreeable, that danger is probably overstated).”
“As the rate for one jukebox is a whopping $405/year for the first jukebox and $93 each additional one and the statutory minimum for copyright infringement is $750/count, it’s really a no-brainer.”
Matthew Yglesias » Jukeboxes are Killing The Recording Industry
““A jukebox is an old, old method of playing music,” Raynor explained.”
“I remember sitting around with her trying to figure out how we could stage this thing as theater—basically conceptualizing what we now call a jukebox musical.”
“Above the jukebox is a steer’s skull and beside it a few disco balls and a beat up iron chandelier.”
“THe jukebox was a photo, and then I just photoshopped it to make it look less photographic.: p”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘jukebox’.
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X Marks the Spot
Words ending in "x" (except proper nouns and trademarks)
ax, ex, ox, soapbox, smallpox, six, sex, sax, rex, pressbox, climax, chickenpox and 208 more...
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Scrabble words which start with the l...
juvenile, juvenal, jutty, jute, jut, justness, justly, justle, justify, justice, juster, just and 534 more...
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Kavitha's Words
avarice, mellow, mahogany, serendipity, plush, vengeance, catalyst, plausible, penury, meticulous, sarcastic, ninja and 100 more...
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Stuffie: Shoots and Ladders
Stuffie #9. Stuff you shoot.
gun, bad guy, movie, breeze, curl, heroin, up, craps, skeet, target, arrow, game and 31 more...
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Clashing by Night
Garnered.
cacophony, crunch, flatulent, gripe, jazz, phlegmatic, plump, plutocrat, sap, treachery, fructify, kumquat and 9 more...
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J is for Jack Russell
My J Words
jabberwocky, jack russell, jack-a-bee, jackabee, jackpot, jalopy, jambalaya, jammies, jeepers creepers, jezebel, jitterbug, jolly roger and 19 more...
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Tunie: Danny's All-Star Joint
by Rickie Lee Jones.
Downstairs at Danny's all-star joint
They got a jukebox that goes doyt-doyt
The vice is nice, he stays in the back all day
But when the nighttime...pocket, business, lawn, street, fun, rules, hep-scat, be-bop, chicken, matzoh, girdle, magazine and 38 more...
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Box It Up
abox, bandbox, beatbox, boxboard, boxcar, boxful, boxlike, boxy, breadbox, cashbox, chatterbox, firebox and 30 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for jukebox.
seanahan The newfangled jukeboxes allow you to download songs from a massive library onto the machine for an extra cost, so you aren't limited to a small number of records. Oct 28, 2007
chained_bear Really big, coin-operated iPods with very limited gigabytes.
Work best in Waffle House. Oct 27, 2007