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How to use juke in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun, verb

Juke means a roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution. Example: “Smith likes juking religion when talking with his family at dinner.”

Examples of juke by meaning

nounA genre of electronic music native to Chicago, noted for its fast, abstract rhythms; see footwork.

  • All Kouichi Furutono wanted to do was expose Japanese audiences to the skittering sounds of Chicago juke music.2018 October 5, Patrick St. Michel, “The Inventive World of Japan’s Juke and Footwork Scene”, in Bandcamp Daily

verbTo stab.

  • He beat me up a couple of times, and I got scared, so one night when he started up again, I just juked him.2012, Russell Banks, Book of Jamaica

verbTo deceive or outmaneuver someone using a feint, especially in American football or soccer.

  • Turning the Vikings'¯ blitz against them, Westbrook took a screen pass from Donovan McNabb, then juked and scooted 71 yards for a touchdown.2009 January 5, Pat Borzi, “Eagles Elude Vikings, but Giants Stand in the Way”, in New York Times
  • Just before the Hongqi closed to within range of its proximity fuse, Vandal juked hard left and kicked in his afterburners.2015, Rick Campbell, Empire Rising

verbTo deceive or outmaneuver, using a feint.

  • He juked Judd out of his shoes, reversed his field, juked Tony, juked Nick, and pretty much juked the entire Bobcats kickoff team on the way to a seventy-two yard return for a touchdown.2015, Peter Guy George, The Tony Crowne Mysteries Box Set: Books 1-3

verbTo manipulate deceptively.

  • The pilot instinctively juked the nimble chopper, but with so many bullets in the air, and so many of them spreading far from their intended target, it was impossible to evade them all.2010, Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul, The Silent Sea
  • Veteran pilots “juked” their bombers to throw off the gunners' aim.2012, Dennis E. Showalter, Harold C. Deutsch, If the Allies Had Fallen: Sixty Alternate Scenarios of World War II, page 84
  • As Roland “Prez” Pryzbylewski knows, there's another problem with treating good stats as good work: They can be juked.2013, David Bzdak, Joanna Crosby, Seth Vannatta, The Wire and Philosophy: This America, Man, page 75

verbTo interrupt a conversation with an unrelated topic.

  • Smith likes juking religion when talking with his family at dinner.

More sentences with juke

  • The juke box is playing our favourite song.From the entry play
  • His greatest success has been with the “juke boxes”, the nickel-in-a-slot automatic phonographs.1939 December 18, Life, p. 27. From the entry jukebox
  • “This place is just a juke joint now, son.2013 December 10, Padgett Powell, Edisto and Edisto Revisited, Open Road Media, →ISBN. From the entry mullety
  • When Jefferson did play juke joints or chock houses he would sometimes have a fiddler to accompany him, often Lorenzo Ross.2012, Jonathan S. Lower, THE AMERICAN BLUES: MEN, MYTHS, AND MOTIFS, page 42. From the entry chock-house
  • He likes the way the bartender keeps changing his green backs into four silver George Washingtons for the juke.2001, Gerry LaFemina, “The Translation of Want”, in Zarathustra in Love: Prose Poems, Saginaw, Mich.: Mayapple Press, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry George Washington
  • The irreverent banger "Hey You" repos Balkan brass and sets it to pure Chicago juke step, which bleeds into a colossal baile beat and, for good measure, some trashy Eurotrance.2006 August 25, Jessica Hopper, “Stick This in Your iTunes”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry baile
  • Such refugitive Sounds were created and heard in juke joints and sharecropping fields—and in the fields of antebellum slavery well before white folklorists and record industry scouts “discovered” black culture.2005, Dennis Ray Childs, Formation of Neoslavery. From the entry refugitive

Meaning of juke

  1. noun A roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution.
  2. noun A genre of electronic music native to Chicago, noted for its fast, abstract rhythms; see footwork.
  3. verb To play dance music, or to dance, in a juke.

Full definition of juke

Questions about juke in a sentence

How do you use juke in a sentence?
Juke is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Smith likes juking religion when talking with his family at dinner.”
What is a short sentence with juke?
“The juke box is playing our favourite song.”
What does juke mean?
Juke means a roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution.

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