jukebox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuːkbɒks/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒukbɑks/
Forms: form: jukeboxes
form: jukeboxing
form: jukeboxed
form: jukeboxed
form: juke box
Etymology: 1939, juke (“roadside café”) + box, replacing older collocational terms such as nickel-in-a-slot phonograph, coin-in-the-slot phonograph, and coin-operated phonograph.
Senses: examples: text: Haven't you ever wasted money jukeboxing in the bars that are bathed in pastis and grenadine?
ref: 1966, Xavier Domingo, The dreams of reason: a novel, page 75:
text: She'd been forty-four, him forty-two when they met, both of them drinking a little too much, both of them fed up with romance. She'd said she'd been jukeboxed half to death.
ref: 2004, Mary Sojourner, Delicate: Stories, →ISBN, page 238:
text: Behind the counter, repairing a clogged sink and making chocolate egg creams at the same time, to jukebox riffs of Patti LaBelle singing "I Sold My Heart to the Junkman," was the proprietor, Rudy.
ref: 2008, Cullen Dorn, The Hierophant of 100th Street: Known to the Spirits as Infinitude, →ISBN:
text: In the Mayfield Days everybody smoked so they all smelled good, teeth as white and wild as urinal cakes, chattered and jukeboxed into the slurring sunset when the real drunks came in Fresh off some shift furnace soot still in their hair
ref: 2010, Craig Sipe, Hero Sandwich, →ISBN, page 37:
glosses: To play and listen to music from a jukebox.
examples: text: They are everywhere today, whistled in the streets, broadcasted, jukeboxed, danced to in ballrooms.
ref: 1950, Arnold Gingrich, Coronet - Volume 29, page 52:
text: BMI members are turning out some perfectly terrible songs which nevertheless are recorded and jukeboxed and played on the air.
ref: 1957, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, Monopoly Problems in Regulated Industries:
text: I'm no longer thinking about TV as real time content streaming, but rather as file jukeboxing.
ref: 2002, The Cook Report on Internet, NREN. - Volume 11, page 61:
glosses: To play (music or digital content) on a jukebox
examples: text: Foamy-chopped dogs frisk the pavements for barf-free kebab or hot dropped fry, mobiles trilling de-daw-de-dee theme tunes, their birdsong jukeboxing the cigarette air as rain falls from a plum sky ...
ref: 2007, Alan A. Gillis, Hawks and doves, page 18:
text: Another one of her sister's old records jukeboxed on in her head.
ref: 2012, Steven Wishnia, When the Drumming Stops, →ISBN:
glosses: To play or repeat as if on a jukebox.
examples: text: And best of all, per-document-stored cost will be substantially under what it is on spinning spindles alone or when the disks are jukeboxed.
ref: 1984, The Journal of Information and Image Management:
text: Whether discs holding only a hundred images, even if "jukeboxed" in a CD-ROM drive, will be of practical use for large image collections remains to be seen, but at the very least the Photo CD will offer a relatively inexpensive method of obtaining a modest collection of digitized color images.
ref: 1992, Visual Resources Association Bulletin - Volumes 19-20, page 38:
text: Jukeboxing can put nearly 20-36 GB of information at users disposal.
ref: 1994, Library Science with a Slant to Documentation and Information Studies:
glosses: To format or set up for playing by a jukebox.