单词 | disc jockey |
释义 | disc jockeyn. Originally U.S. 1. A person who introduces and plays recorded popular music on the radio; (later) the presenter of a radio broadcast, typically one involving popular music.The more common term in later use is DJ n.2 1. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > broadcaster > [noun] > types of co-host1908 announcer1922 newsreader1925 race-reader1926 newscaster1930 sportscaster1930 quizzee1933 school broadcaster1937 commentator1938 racecaster1938 sportcaster1938 femcee1940 record jockey1940 disc jockey1941 narrator1941 deejay1946 colourman1947 anchorman1948 host1948 jock1952 speakerine1957 presenter1959 linkman1960 anchorwoman1961 rock jock1961 anchor1962 jockey1963 voice-over1966 anchorperson1971 outside broadcaster1971 news anchor1975 talk-master1975 satcaster1982 1941 Variety 23 July 34/4 Disc jockey solves vacation. Turning a program over to the public while the emcee is vacationing is big stuff from a listener's angle, WEBR is finding. 1942 Time 6 July 67/1 Some stations merely hired ‘disk-jockeys’ to ride herd on swing records, in the traditional milk-man's matinee style. 1955 Times 22 July 9/4 We will do well to try to emulate the disc-jockeys and to put into our voices the warm, gay humanity which they lavish on Mrs. Soup and Mrs. Gravel. 1971 N.Y. Times 9 May (Entertainment section) 17/4 All the other disk jockeys had names like Brown and Green. 1980 Washington Post (Nexis) 7 Apr. b2 After a night of mixing and remixing, Pittman rushed the tape to a Dallas radio station, and disc jockey Ron Chapman spun ‘Roger's Song’ on the air at 8:45 a.m. 2004 Entertainment Weekly 5 Nov. 80 John Peel..was arguably the last of a dying breed—a disc jockey who spun only the music he liked, playlists be damned. 2. = DJ n.2 2a.The usual term in later use is DJ n.2 2a. ΚΠ 1964 Pittsburgh Courier 27 June 17/2 Discothesque [sic]..has happened at the Blue Angel, and Jay Whitney, disc jockey, was heard giving Gloria Lynne's recordings a good spin, recently. 1973 N.Y. Mag. 12 Mar. 20/3 La Forêt—London-style discotheque, from 11 each night, featuring English disc-jockeys and London hit records. 1986 R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk iii. 118 Often toasts will include a boasting element in which the disc jockey will celebrate his own skills at the ‘controls’:..Mi com fe mash it up-a! Mi com fe love it up-a! Ram it Mr Operator! 1993 Atlantic Oct. 105/1 Disjunct instrumental sounds that initiates call the ‘beats’, which are sometimes supplied by live singers and musicians but are more frequently the result of a disc jockey's sampling bits and pieces of other records. 2012 Times (Nexis) 2 Feb. 33 The President's son, who works as a disc-jockey, was about to perform at a private birthday party in a nightclub in Odessa. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). disc jockeyv. intransitive. To work or perform as a disc jockey. ΚΠ 1941 Variety 13 Aug. 51 (headline) Art Green disc-jockeys from Manhattan Beach. 1976 Texas Monthly Aug. 102 He [sc. Willie Nelson] peddled Bibles and vacuum cleaners door-to-door, pumped gas, joined the Air Force, scrubbed floors, disc-jockeyed, and dishwashed. 2012 Washington Post (Nexis) 19 Jan. a11 I used to produce music, I was in bands, and I traveled the world disc jockeying. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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