What is a Jukebox?

WHAT IS A JUKEBOX? As defined ......

JUKE BOX: Electrically operated, nickel - in - the - slot music box.

JUKE: To mess around; wicked, disorderly. Associated with anything connected with a place of ill repute; a juke house (sometimes just a juke) is a disorderly house; once a whorehouse, now called a cathouse or canhouse. (circa 1950s)

JUKE: A dialect called GULLAH used by Negroes living on the islands lying off the coast of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, whose ancestral tribes came from Senegal, French West Africa.

"JUKING": To tour roadside bars, usually with one of the opposite sex; to drive to one roadside bar, drink a little and perhaps dance a little, leave and go to another, and continue in this manner for an entire evening. Sometimes you just stop to drink .... and sometimes you stop drinking and driving and go to a tourist cabin (with a girl).

Compiled by Don A. Muller - 1971