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jukebox

Syllables: juke·boxUK/ˈd͡ʒuːkbɒks//ˈd͡ʒukˌbɑks/

jukebox noun: a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music, with push-buttons to make selections. Also the ellipsis of jukebox musical.

jukebox: a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music, with push-buttons to make selections
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Noun

jukebox (plural jukeboxes)

  1. A coin-operated machine that plays recorded music, with push-buttons to make selections.
    • Glenn Miller plays more sweet numbers than hot. His greatest success has been with the “juke boxes”, the nickel-in-a-slot automatic phonographs. Miller is easily the most outstanding juke-box artist of 1939.1939 December 18, Life, p. 27
    • "I love rock 'n roll
      So put another dime in the jukebox, baby
      I love rock 'n roll
      So come and take your time and dance with me"1975 July, Alan Merrill, Jake Hooker, “I Love Rock 'n' Roll”, in I Love Rock 'n Roll, performed by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, published January 1982
  2. (broadly) A software application capable of replaying tracks from a digital music collection.
    • Before you export a movie to tape, double-check the following: Make sure all unnecessary programs are closed, including your e-mail program, MP3 jukebox, and Web browser.2011, Keith Underdahl, Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies
  3. An automated carousel for the storage and retrieval of tapes, CD-ROMs, etc.

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.
    • Haven't you ever wasted money jukeboxing in the bars that are bathed in pastis and grenadine?1966, Xavier Domingo, The dreams of reason: a novel, page 75
    • 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.2004, Mary Sojourner, Delicate: Stories, →ISBN, page 238
  2. (transitive) To play (music or digital content) on a jukebox
    • They are everywhere today, whistled in the streets, broadcasted, jukeboxed, danced to in ballrooms.1950, Arnold Gingrich, Coronet - Volume 29, page 52
    • BMI members are turning out some perfectly terrible songs which nevertheless are recorded and jukeboxed and played on the air.1957, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Monopoly Problems in Regulated Industries
  3. (broadly) To play or repeat as if on a jukebox.
    • 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 ...2007, Alan A. Gillis, Hawks and doves, page 18
    • Another one of her sister's old records jukeboxed on in her head.2012, Steven Wishnia, When the Drumming Stops, →ISBN
  4. To format or set up for playing by a jukebox.
    • 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.1984, The Journal of Information and Image Management
    • 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.1992, Visual Resources Association Bulletin - Volumes 19-20, page 38

Also used as

jukebox is also the ellipsis of jukebox musical.

jukebox meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali

jukebox in Hindi

ज्यूकबॉक्स, जूकबॉक्स, जुकबॉक्स

jukebox in Tamil

ஜூக்பாக்ஸ், ஜூக் பாக்ஸ்

jukebox in Marathi

a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music
ज्युकबॉक्स jyukbŏksa
an automated carousel
ज्युकबॉक्स jyukbŏksa

jukebox in Bengali

জুকবক্স, জুক্বক্স, জ্যুকবক্স
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jukebox in Telugu
జూక్బాక్స్, జ్యూక్బాక్స్, జూక్ బాక్స్
jukebox in Malayalam
ജൂക്ക്ബോക്സ്, ജൂക്ക് ബോക്സ്, ജൂക്ബോക്സ്
jukebox in Kannada
ಜೂಕ್ಬಾಕ್ಸ್, ಜ್ಯೂಕ್ಬಾಕ್ಸ್, ಜೂಕ್ ಬಾಕ್ಸ್
jukebox in Punjabi
ਜੂਕਬਾਕਸ, ਜੂਕੀਬਾਕਸ, ਜ੍ਯੂਕਬਾਕਸ
jukebox in Gujarati
જ્યુકબોક્સ, જ્યૂકબોક્સ, જ્યુકબૉક્સ
jukebox in Odia
ଜୁକବକ୍ସ, ଜୁକ୍ ବକ୍ସ, ଜୁକ୍ବକ୍ସ
jukebox in Nepali
ज्यूकबक्स, ज्युकबक्स, जुकबक्स
jukebox in Arabic
جُوكْبُوكْس jukbuks
jukebox in Indonesian
kotak juke
jukebox in Thai
ตู้เพลง dtûu-pleeng

Examples of jukebox in a sentence

  • 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.2008, Cullen Dorn, The Hierophant of 100th Street: Known to the Spirits as Infinitude, →ISBN:
  • I'm no longer thinking about TV as real time content streaming, but rather as file jukeboxing.2002, The Cook Report on Internet, NREN. - Volume 11, page 61:
  • Jukeboxing can put nearly 20-36 GB of information at users disposal.1994, Library Science with a Slant to Documentation and Information Studies:

All 17 example sentences with jukebox

Forms of jukebox

Noun
pluraljukeboxes
alternative formjuke box
Verb
third-person singular presentjukeboxes
present participlejukeboxing
past participlejukeboxed
pastjukeboxed

Plural of jukebox: jukeboxes

Origin of jukebox

First use appears c. 1939, from juke (“roadside café”) + box, replacing older collocational terms such as nickel-in-a-slot phonograph, coin-in-the-slot phonograph, and coin-operated phonograph.

Words formed from jukebox

Phrases with jukebox

Questions about jukebox

What does jukebox mean?
Jukebox means a coin-operated machine that plays recorded music, with push-buttons to make selections.
What is jukebox in Hindi?
Jukebox in Hindi is ज्यूकबॉक्स, जूकबॉक्स, जुकबॉक्स. See Jukebox meaning in Hindi.
How do you use jukebox in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is jukebox?
Jukebox can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce jukebox?
Jukebox is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒuːkbɒks/ (UK).
What is the plural of jukebox?
The plural of jukebox is jukeboxes.

Words near jukebox in the dictionary

  1. juke houses
  2. juke joint
  3. juke joints
  4. juke organ
  5. juke organs
  6. jukebox
  7. jukebox musical
  8. jukebox musicals
  9. jukeboxed
  10. jukeboxes
  11. jukeboxing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jukebox (page history and authors); jukebox (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jukebox (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jukebox (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jukebox (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jukebox (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jukebox (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jukebox (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jukebox (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jukebox (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jukebox (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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