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Definition of jukebox in English: jukeboxnounˈdʒuːkbɒksˈdʒukˌbɑks 1A machine that automatically plays a selected musical recording when a coin is inserted. Example sentencesExamples - The jukebox has fallen out of favour in recent years, due to the rise in popularity of the personal stereo amongst pub-goers.
- But I'm concerned that live music is giving way to jukeboxes.
- Pubs usually stage karaoke evenings or have jukeboxes churning out the hits.
- Councilmen visited drugstores and restaurants in the city, demanding that proprietors remove all rock records from their jukeboxes.
- I hung up and went to check out the selection on the jukebox.
- The jukeboxes in the bars were ringing with recordings made in Chicago and New York, rich with the promises of new opportunities.
- But it's worth considering the cost: I don't have to buy or rent the jukebox, and it's just twenty-five cents per song.
- Someone throws a few coins into the jukebox and we are bombarded by Pink's ‘Lets get the party started’.
- Blue walks over to his usual table, but stops at the jukebox first and selects a song.
- One of their friends repaired jukeboxes for a living.
- I peered into the jukebox's window, squinting and spinning my head with the record in an attempt to read the label.
- It's a compilation from the start of her career when she recorded with many bands and most of her records ended up in jukeboxes.
- The lack of a jukebox, dancefloor or fruit machines is in keeping with the York Brewery theme of pubs for drinking, eating and talking.
- This is one track you're not likely to find on too many jukeboxes in red states.
- I glanced over my shoulder to where Ashley was singing along by the jukebox.
- He put a nickel in the jukebox and tossed back a few cold ones.
- As they watched, one of the players shambled over to the jukebox and fed a handful of coins into it.
- In Harlem, angry fans removed his records from jukeboxes and trampled them in the street.
- If you scooted them all a few inches or so this way, you could fit both a pinball machine and a jukebox along that wall.
- He wants pool tables, a jukebox, internet access, a proper bar and any other ideas the children come up with.
- 1.1Computing A device that stores several computer disks in such a way that data can be read from any of them.
Example sentencesExamples - You can even have a DVD-RAM jukebox in practically any size that meets your needs.
- The other traditional data storage, nearline archiving, involves moving the data to a slower media such as robotic tape and laser or magnetic optical jukeboxes.
- While DVD-RAM for proprietary storage jukeboxes may be a viable prospect, the technology is losing ground in the optical standards race.
- In order to increase disk capacity in a jukebox, the physical size of the unit must be increased, which increases the cost of the unit.
- DVD jukeboxes with 4.7GB capacity per disc may be a more suitable choice in situations where rapid data access is concerned.
Origin 1930s: from juke + box. In the USA a juke was a nightclub or bar that provided food, drinks, and music for dancing. The word was based on a term from the Creole language of the Gullah, an African-American people living on the coast of South Carolina and nearby islands. In their language juke meant ‘disorderly’.
Definition of jukebox in US English: jukeboxnounˈjo͞okˌbäksˈdʒukˌbɑks 1A machine that automatically plays a selected musical recording when a coin is inserted. Example sentencesExamples - Pubs usually stage karaoke evenings or have jukeboxes churning out the hits.
- The jukebox has fallen out of favour in recent years, due to the rise in popularity of the personal stereo amongst pub-goers.
- In Harlem, angry fans removed his records from jukeboxes and trampled them in the street.
- I glanced over my shoulder to where Ashley was singing along by the jukebox.
- I hung up and went to check out the selection on the jukebox.
- If you scooted them all a few inches or so this way, you could fit both a pinball machine and a jukebox along that wall.
- Blue walks over to his usual table, but stops at the jukebox first and selects a song.
- This is one track you're not likely to find on too many jukeboxes in red states.
- But I'm concerned that live music is giving way to jukeboxes.
- Councilmen visited drugstores and restaurants in the city, demanding that proprietors remove all rock records from their jukeboxes.
- Someone throws a few coins into the jukebox and we are bombarded by Pink's ‘Lets get the party started’.
- As they watched, one of the players shambled over to the jukebox and fed a handful of coins into it.
- I peered into the jukebox's window, squinting and spinning my head with the record in an attempt to read the label.
- The lack of a jukebox, dancefloor or fruit machines is in keeping with the York Brewery theme of pubs for drinking, eating and talking.
- He put a nickel in the jukebox and tossed back a few cold ones.
- One of their friends repaired jukeboxes for a living.
- But it's worth considering the cost: I don't have to buy or rent the jukebox, and it's just twenty-five cents per song.
- It's a compilation from the start of her career when she recorded with many bands and most of her records ended up in jukeboxes.
- The jukeboxes in the bars were ringing with recordings made in Chicago and New York, rich with the promises of new opportunities.
- He wants pool tables, a jukebox, internet access, a proper bar and any other ideas the children come up with.
- 1.1Computing A device that stores several computer disks in such a way that data can be read from any of them.
Example sentencesExamples - You can even have a DVD-RAM jukebox in practically any size that meets your needs.
- While DVD-RAM for proprietary storage jukeboxes may be a viable prospect, the technology is losing ground in the optical standards race.
- The other traditional data storage, nearline archiving, involves moving the data to a slower media such as robotic tape and laser or magnetic optical jukeboxes.
- In order to increase disk capacity in a jukebox, the physical size of the unit must be increased, which increases the cost of the unit.
- DVD jukeboxes with 4.7GB capacity per disc may be a more suitable choice in situations where rapid data access is concerned.
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