Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. A coin-operated machine that plays recorded music, with push-buttons to make selections.
2. (computing, by extension) A software application capable of replaying tracks from a digital music collection.
3. (computing) An automated carousel for the storage and retrieval of tapes, CD-ROMs, etc.
4. (theater) Ellipsis of jukebox musical.
5. To play and listen to music from a jukebox.
6. (transitive) To play (music or digital content) on a jukebox
7. (by extension) To play or repeat as if on a jukebox.
8. To format or set up for playing by a jukebox.

Example Sentences

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"

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.

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

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.

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

Word Forms

• jukeboxes
• juke box
• jukeboxing
• jukeboxed

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