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Word entry · 4 letters

juke

Best crossword clue

"Fake-out move"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /d͡ʒuːk/Part of speech nounSorted ejkuStarts with JEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
1J2U3K4E

Definitions

  1. (football) a deceptive move made by a football player

Word origin

From Gullah juke, jook, joog (“wicked, disorderly”) (compare Wolof and Bambara dzug (“unsavory”)).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • All Kouichi Furutono wanted to do was expose Japanese audiences to the skittering sounds of Chicago juke music.
  • ‘Let's jouk’ is an invitation to dance, but ‘Let's go joukin’’ is a request for a date.

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