1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. iii. 82 They talked and told strong stories of Ella, Wall, East Coast Mary,..and lesser jook lights around whom the glory of Polk County surged.

1936 Scribner's Mag. Dec. 27/2 Jim's daddy owned the General Store and a nigger jook.

1937 in Florida Rev. (1938) Spring 28/1 Back yonder a ‘juke’ was a place, usually a shack somewhere off the road, where a field negro could go for a snort of moonshine.

1937 in Florida Rev. (1938) Spring 28/1 There were negro juke-joints as far back as I can remember.

1941 J. Faulkner Men Working ii. 39 The glow from the lights of the jook house at the lake appeared above the trees.

1956 S. Longstreet Real Jazz xviii. 151 Juke from juke box came from juke house—which was once a whorehouse.

1958 P. Oliver in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz i. 23 The crude, wood-frame dance-halls called ‘jooks’ (or jukes).

1964 Amer. Folk Music Occas. No. 1. 93 You go into the bars and the juke joints and you ask around.

1968 Blues Unlimited Nov. 6 Now Ike told Dave that he cut Elmore's ‘Dust my broom’ at a Canton juke-joint.

1971 Black World June 72/2 Had done sent Lueta and Carol Ann to every juke joint in Greenwood askin bout you.

1937 in Florida Rev. (1938) Spring 25/3 The screeching of the ‘jook’ organ.

1939 Time 27 Nov. 56/2 Glenn Miller attributes his crescendo to the ‘juke-box’, which retails recorded music at 5¢ a shot in bars, restaurants and small roadside dance joints.

1939 Time 25 Dec. 3/1 To the Florida Man such an instrument is a jook organ.

1942 D. Powell Time to be Born (1943) x. 241 Corinne put a quarter in the juke-box to play ‘Let's Be Buddies’ five times.

1944 W. H. Auden For Time Being (1945) 65 War has become Like a juke-box tune that we dare not stop.

1947 Gramophone Dec. 95/1 It is the Petrillo thesis that records which are played in juke-boxes and broadcast over the radio..are monsters which have threatened the musicians' very existence.

1947 W. H. Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) ii. 44 The juke-box jives rejoicing madly.

1954 Archit. Rev. 116 92/2 The stupefying juke-box façade of the Wertheim project.

1959 C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 83 See all the kids jam-packed in there beside the jukes?

1961 L. Mumford City in Hist. viii. 224 Pennsylvania Station in New York retains this noble quality—or did until that structure was converted..into a vast jukebox.

1968 J. Winearls Mod. Dance (ed. 2) vi. 143 There emerges a constant from which the immediate must not depart. Our teenage Juke Box Juries demonstrate this ably.

1973 C. Bonington Next Horizon xvii. 244 A coffee bar for teenagers, complete with juke box.

1973 Nation Rev. (Melbourne) 31 Aug. 1453/4 The America they traverse, of fibro suburbs and prison farms and jukebox bars, is..correctly and compassionately observed.

1933 W. Roland (title of disc) Jookit Jookit.

1941 Amer. Speech 16 319/2 ‘Let's jouk’ is an invitation to dance, but ‘let's go joukin'’ is a request for a date.

1958 T. Williams Orpheus Descending i. 28 I'd like to go out jooking with you tonight... That's where you get in a car and drink a little and drive a little and stop and dance a little to a juke box.

1960 20th Cent. Aug. 144 But living, in these terms, is reduced to jooking.

1967 Daily Tel. 15 May 12/8 To juke also came to mean to dance and to go pub-crawling.

1937 C. R. Cooper Here's to Crime ix. 190 In the ‘jukin' joints’ there is, of course, the prime requisite of liquor.