juke
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Is juke a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (Southern US, countable) A roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution.Southern-UScountable
2. (countable) Clipping of jukebox.Examples: "The juke played five times for a quarter and she never wearied of tapping. Nor did she tire of the same record five times in a row; she was too indolent to select more than one number."abbreviationalt-ofclippingcountable
3. (uncountable, music) A genre of electronic music native to Chicago, noted for its fast, abstract rhythms; see footwork.Examples: "All Kouichi Furutono wanted to do was expose Japanese audiences to the skittering sounds of Chicago juke music."uncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To deceive or outmaneuver someone using a feint, especially in American football or soccer.Examples: "Turning the Vikings'¯ blitz against them, Westbrook took a screen pass from Donovan McNabb, then juked and scooted 71 yards for a touchdown."; "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."Synonyms: dummyintransitiveslang
2. (transitive) To deceive or outmaneuver, using a feint.Examples: "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."; "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."slangtransitive
3. (intransitive) To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.Examples: "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."intransitiveslang
4. (transitive) To manipulate deceptively.Examples: "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."; "Veteran pilots “juked” their bombers to throw off the gunners' aim."; "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?""slangtransitive
noun (English)
1. (sports) A feint.Synonyms: dummyslang
Definition source: Wiktionary