juke

To play dance music, or to dance, in a juke.

Noun Southern US, countable

  1. A roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution.
  2. Clipping of jukebox.
    • The juke played five times for a quarter and she never wearied of tapping. Nor did she tire of the same record five times in a row; she was too indolent to select more than one number. - 2011, Nelson Algren, Never Come...
  3. A 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...

Origin

From Gullah juke, jook, joog (“wicked, disorderly”) (compare Wolof and Bambara dzug (“unsavory”)).

Forms

jukes

Synonyms

barrelhouse juke house juke joint

Derived

jukebox juke joint juke organ

Noun hobbies, lifestyle

  1. A feint.

    Synonyms: dummy deke

  2. The neck of a bird.

Origin

Uncertain. Perhaps from Scots jouk, jowk, juke (“to elude, cheat; duck, skulk; bob, dodge”), palatalized variants of Scots deuk, douk, dowk (“to duck”). More at duck (verb).

Forms

jukes

Derived

outjuke

Verb intransitive, slang

  1. To 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...
    • Just before the Hongqi closed to within range of its proximity fuse, Vandal juked hard left and kicked in his afterburners. The first missile sped by without detonating. Vandal juked hard left again, completing a...

    Synonyms: dummy deke

  2. To deceive or outmaneuver, using a feint.
    • The runner juked Connor, the runner juked Smith, and Severin centered on him; he was five yards out, he screamed, he was a yard out, he screamed, he hit the kid so hard that both of their helmets flew off their heads. -...
    • 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...
  3. To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.
    • The Money-Merchant, I warrant ye, was ſo Proud of his Truſt, and of his Bell, that he went Juking and Toſſing of his Head, and Tabring with his Feet all the way, as if no Ground would hold him. - 1692, Roger L'Estrange,...
  4. To 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...
    • 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. “All this so we score higher on the state tests? If we're teaching the kids the test questions, what...
  5. To interrupt a conversation with an unrelated topic.
    • Smith likes juking religion when talking with his family at dinner.

Forms

jukes juking juked

Verb slang

  1. To hit.
  2. To stab.
    • "None of the Latinos liked him." "So now he's dead." "So go talk to the other ten thousand people could've juked him." - 1992, Ed McBain, Kiss:
    • On the internet that night Asghar told a friend: "I'll bang him and then f*** it man, might as well juke [stab] him up tomorrow." - 2007 February 9, “Teenager filmed by friend as he stabbed 16-year-old student to...
    • He beat me up a couple of times, and I got scared, so one night when he started up again, I just juked him. Three times in the chest, and it still didn't kill him! But I had to go to jail for a whole year. - 2012,...

    Synonyms: chef chib ching chive enthrill foin gore gride jab job juke kebab knifecrime lancinate pigstick pink poach run through shank shiv spear speet splash stab

  3. To thrust with the pelvis, in particular for sexual intercourse.
    • Got a ratchet lil bitch and she from Inglewood I'm moving around, I do nothing but jugg I'm fucking these ho like a young nigga should And you'd do the same if you young niggas could - 2018, “Musty” (track 13), in...
    • Still pushing Zs and I don’t mean freezing I am still jugging The stripper so hugging The girl still super-bad, missed them a loving - 2022 January 4, “Still”, YR (lyrics), P110, 0:49:

Origin

Etymology tree Jamaican Creole jookbor. English juke Borrowed from Jamaican Creole jook.

Forms

jukes juking juked jook jugg

Verb Entry 5

  1. To play dance music, or to dance, in a juke.
    • ‘Let's jouk’ is an invitation to dance, but ‘Let's go joukin’’ is a request for a date. - 1941 December, Arthur K. Moore, “Jouk”, in American Speech, page 319:
    • I want you to go juking with me... that's riding and stopping to drink and dance - 1958, Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending, New York: New Directions, →OCLC:

Forms

jukes juking juked