jukebox

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A coin-operated machine that plays recorded music, with push-buttons to make selections.

   • Glenn Miller plays more sweet numbers than hot. His greatest success has been with the “juke boxes”, the nickel-in-a-slot automatic phonographs. Miller is easily the most outstanding juke-box artist of 1939.
   • "I love rock 'n roll So put another dime in the jukebox, baby I love rock 'n roll So come and take your time and dance with me"
2. 2

   A software application capable of replaying tracks from a digital music collection.

   • Before you export a movie to tape, double-check the following: Make sure all unnecessary programs are closed, including your e-mail program, MP3 jukebox, and Web browser.
3. 3

   An automated carousel for the storage and retrieval of tapes, CD-ROMs, etc.

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   1. 4

      Ellipsis of jukebox musical.

      • Jukeboxes have frequently been compared to the megamusicals and are considered a direct offshoot.
   2. 5

      To play and listen to music from a jukebox.

      • Haven't you ever wasted money jukeboxing in the bars that are bathed in pastis and grenadine?
      • 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.
      • 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.
   3. 6

      To play (music or digital content) on a jukebox

      • They are everywhere today, whistled in the streets, broadcasted, jukeboxed, danced to in ballrooms.
      • BMI members are turning out some perfectly terrible songs which nevertheless are recorded and jukeboxed and played on the air.
      • I'm no longer thinking about TV as real time content streaming, but rather as file jukeboxing.
   4. 7

      To play or repeat as if on a jukebox.

      • 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 ...
      • Another one of her sister's old records jukeboxed on in her head.
   5. 8

      To format or set up for playing by a jukebox.

      • 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.
      • Jukeboxing can put nearly 20-36 GB of information at users disposal.

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