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DJ

/ˈdi(ː)(.)d͡ʒeɪ/

DJ is the initialism of disc jockey.

DJ is the initialism of dinner jacket.

DJ is the initialism of dust jacket.

DJ is the initialism of David Jones.

Meaning of disc jockey

Noun

disc jockey (plural disc jockeys)

  1. A person who plays, and sometimes mixes, recorded music at nightclubs, dances, parties, or some other social event; or as a backup musician for spoken word, or hip hop performers.
    • The disc jockey played brilliant music at the party.
  2. (dated) A person who conducts a radio program of recorded music combined with talk, news, commercials, weather, etc.
    • The show he produced first aired on WJMR, a white-owned New Orleans radio station. The show's disc jockey used the name “Poppa Stoppa” and played what would then be called “race music,” the term given to any music produced by African American artists.2014, Dominic Massa, New Orleans Radio, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 107

Meaning of dinner jacket

Noun

dinner jacket (plural dinner jackets)

  1. (US, especially) A jacket, often white, corresponding to a tuxedo jacket.
    • Constant was fully dressed in blue-green evening shorts and a dinner jacket of gold brocade.1959, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 2, in The Sirens of Titan, New York: Dial, published 2006, page 49
  2. (UK) The formal suit, typically black, that includes this type of jacket.
    • [They] sat in a pen in the corner, smoking cigarettes and reading magazines; four or five girls in black silk dresses and the same number of slight effeminate young men in dinner-jackets.1932, Nevil Shute, chapter 2, in Lonely Road

Verb

DJ (third-person singular simple present DJs or DJ's, present participle DJing or DJ'ing, simple past and past participle DJed or DJ'd or DJ'ed)

  1. To act as a DJ (disc jockey); to play, cut and mix/blend recorded music.
    • A tattooed camp staffer DJs from a heavily stickered laptop, next to a whirling party light that scatters rainbow beams throughout the space.2023 August 31, Frankie de la Cretaz, “Postcard from Camp Gaylore”, in Cosmopolitan

Proper noun

DJ

  1. Dow Jones & Company, an American publishing firm.

Synonyms of DJ

Forms of DJ

Noun
pluralDJs
Verb
third-person singular presentDJs
third-person singular presentDJ's
present participleDJing
present participleDJ'ing
past participleDJed
pastDJed
past participleDJ'd
pastDJ'd
past participleDJ'ed
pastDJ'ed

Phrases with DJ

Words that rhyme with DJ

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Questions about DJ

What does DJ mean?
DJ means to act as a DJ (disc jockey); to play, cut and mix/blend recorded music.
What is DJ the initialism of?
DJ is the initialism of disc jockey.
What part of speech is DJ?
DJ can be a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce DJ?
DJ is pronounced /ˈdi(ː)(.)d͡ʒeɪ/.
What is the past tense of DJ?
The past tense of DJ is DJed.

Words near DJ in the dictionary

  1. diœcesan
  2. diœcese
  3. diœceses
  4. diœcious
  5. diœstrus
  6. DJ
  7. DJ copies
  8. DJ copy
  9. Djabriyya
  10. Djabugay
  11. Djadjawurrung

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: DJ (page history and authors); disc jockey (page history and authors); dinner jacket (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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