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jook joint

jook joint is the alternative spelling of juke joint.

Meaning of juke joint

Noun

juke joint (plural juke joints)

  1. (slang, African-American Vernacular) An informal drinking establishment featuring blues music and dancing; primarily operated by African Americans in the southeastern United States.
    • "She's black as tar... nappy-headed... She got legs like baseball bats. Her own daddy won't have nothing to do with her. She's no more than a jook-joint Jezebel. She ain't even clean."1985, The Color Purple, 00:56:00

Forms of jook joint

pluraljook joints

Questions about jook joint

What is jook joint the alternative spelling of?
Jook joint is the alternative spelling of juke joint.

Words near jook joint in the dictionary

  1. joojes
  2. joojing
  3. jook
  4. jook house
  5. jook houses
  6. jook joint
  7. jook joints
  8. jook organ
  9. jook organs
  10. jook-sing
  11. jook-sings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jook joint (page history and authors); juke joint (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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