juke

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See also: jouk and jook

English

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Gullah juke, jook, joog (“wicked, disorderly”) (compare Wolof and Bambara dzug (“unsavory”)).[1][2][3]

Noun

juke (plural jukes)

  1. (Southern US) A roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution.
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Verb

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  1. to play dance music, or to dance, in a juke
    • 1941 December, Arthur K. Moore, “Jouk”, in American Speech, page 319:
      ‘Let's jouk’ is an invitation to dance, but ‘Let's go joukin’’ is a request for a date.
    • 1958, Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending, New York: New Directions, →OCLC:
      I want you to go juking with me... that's riding and stopping to drink and dance
  2. (slang) to hit
  3. (prison slang) to stab
    • 1992, Ed McBain, Kiss:
      "None of the Latinos liked him."
      "So now he's dead."
      "So go talk to the other ten thousand people could've juked him."
    • 2007, Teenager filmed by friend as he stabbed 16-year-old student to death (in Mail Online, 9 February 2007) [1]
      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."
    • 2012, Russell Banks, Book of Jamaica:
      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.

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Etymology 2

From Middle English jowken (“bend”)

Verb

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  1. To deceive or outmaneuver someone using a feint, especially in American football or soccer
    Synonym: dummy
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  3. To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.
    • 1692, Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists with morals and reflexions, London: R. Sare [et alia], →OCLC, Two Laden Asses:
      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.

Noun

juke (plural jukes)

  1. (sports) A feint.
    Synonym: dummy
  2. The neck of a bird.

References

  1. ^ Lorenzo Dow Turner, “West African Survivals in the Vocabulary of Gullah” (Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, 1938)
  2. ^ Will McGuire, “Dzug, Dzog, Dzugu, Jook, Juke”, Time, vol. 35, no. 5 (1940), p. 12
  3. ^ The template Template:R:Partridge New does not use the parameter(s): 
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