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noun
A roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Southern-US, countable
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noun
Clipping of jukebox.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable
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noun
A genre of electronic music native to Chicago, noted for its fast, abstract rhythms; see footwork.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
A feint.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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Synonyms: dummy, deke
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noun
The neck of a bird.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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verb
To play dance music, or to dance, in a juke.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To hit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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verb
To stab.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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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, stick, stob, stog, thrust, yerk
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verb
To thrust with the pelvis, in particular for sexual intercourse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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verb
To deceive or outmaneuver someone using a feint, especially in American football or soccer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, slang
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Synonyms: dummy, deke
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verb
To deceive or outmaneuver, using a feint.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, transitive
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verb
To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, slang
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verb
To manipulate deceptively.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, transitive
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verb
To interrupt a conversation with an unrelated topic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, transitive
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noun
(football) a deceptive move made by a football player
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: fake
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Broader terms: feint
noun
a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: jook, juke joint, jook joint, juke house, jook house
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: joint
History
From Gullah juke, jook, joog (“wicked, disorderly”) (compare Wolof and Bambara dzug (“unsavory”)).
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).
Borrowed from Jamaican Creole jook.
Across languages
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