juke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒuːk/
rhymes: -uːk
homophone: jook (some senses)
homophone: duke (yod-coalescence)
Forms: form: jukes
form: juking
form: juked
form: juked
Etymology: 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).
Senses: examples: text: Turning the Vikings'¯ blitz against them, Westbrook took a screen pass from Donovan McNabb, then juked and scooted 71 yards for a touchdown.
ref: 2009 January 5, Pat Borzi, “Eagles Elude Vikings, but Giants Stand in the Way”, in New York Times:
text: Just before the Hongqi closed to within range of its proximity fuse, Vandal juked hard left and kicked in his afterburners. The first missile sped by without detonating. Vandal juked hard left again, completing a 180-degree turn.
ref: 2015, Rick Campbell, Empire Rising:
synonyms: dummy
glosses: To deceive or outmaneuver someone using a feint, especially in American football or soccer.
examples: text: The runner juked Connor, the runner juked Smith, and Severin centered on him; he was five yards out, he screamed, he was a yard out, he screamed, he hit the kid so hard that both of their helmets flew off their heads.
ref: 2008, Anthony Swofford, Exit A:
text: He juked Judd out of his shoes, reversed his field, juked Tony, juked Nick, and pretty much juked the entire Bobcats kickoff team on the way to a seventy-two yard return for a touchdown.
ref: 2015, Peter Guy George, The Tony Crowne Mysteries Box Set: Books 1-3:
glosses: To deceive or outmaneuver, using a feint.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1692, Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists with morals and reflexions, London: R. Sare [et alia], →OCLC, Two Laden Asses:
glosses: To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.
examples: text: The pilot instinctively juked the nimble chopper, but with so many bullets in the air, and so many of them spreading far from their intended target, it was impossible to evade them all.
ref: 2010, Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul, The Silent Sea:
text: Veteran pilots “juked” their bombers to throw off the gunners' aim.
ref: 2012, Dennis E. Showalter, Harold C. Deutsch, If the Allies Had Fallen: Sixty Alternate Scenarios of World War II, page 84:
text: As Roland “Prez” Pryzbylewski knows, there's another problem with treating good stats as good work: They can be juked. “All this so we score higher on the state tests? If we're teaching the kids the test questions, what is assessing in them?"
ref: 2013, David Bzdak, Joanna Crosby, Seth Vannatta, The Wire and Philosophy: This America, Man, page 75:
text: Schools are ever more adept at juking their admissions stats, using aggressive marketing practices to gin up larger and larger numbers of applicants, many of whom they know they'll never admit (the so-called “attract to reject” strategy)
ref: 2014, William Deresiewicz, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life, page 35:
glosses: To manipulate deceptively.