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Juke   /dʒuk/   Listen
Juke

noun
1.
A small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox.  Synonyms: jook, jook house, jook joint, juke house, juke joint.
2.
(football) a deceptive move made by a football player.  Synonym: fake.



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"Juke" Quotes from Famous Books



... on this question could be so conclusive as are these simple facts concerning the "Juke" family. It is certainly high time that our legislators began to awaken to this subject, and consider whether it would be an unprofitable experiment to make some attempt to prevent the multiplication of criminals in this manner. We are not prepared to offer a plan for securing ...
— Plain Facts for Old and Young • John Harvey Kellogg

... partly disclosed down there—some one murdered and buried; but one of Mr. Juke's young men is ...
— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu

... Sara Juke, in the bargain basement of the Titanic Department Store, did not know that lint from white goods clogs the lungs, and that the air she breathed was putrefied as from a noxious swamp. Sometimes a pain, sharp as a hatpin, entered between ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... length a really sound plant will be obtained. The same principle holds good in regard to the human plant. It is hard to offset an evil ancestry. The contamination goes on from generation to generation, just as in the case of the notorious Juke family which cost New York State hundreds of thousands of dollars in consequence of criminality and idiocy. It requires almost a miracle to divert an individual sprung from a corrupt stem into a healthy, moral course of living. There must be some powerful ...
— Marvels of Modern Science • Paul Severing

... Juke, "I alone can save you from yon bloody pirut! Ho! a peck of oats!" The oats was brought, and the Juke, boldly mountin the jibpoop, throwed them onto the towpath. The pirut rapidly approached, chucklin with fiendish delight at the idee of increasin his ill-gotten gains. But the leadin ...
— Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers • Various


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