why is a jukebox....?

Question

why is a jukebox called a jukebox....?

Answer 1

A storage device for multiple optical disc, and one or more discs drives. It will automatically select or changeover as needed. Also Kodak's term for Photo CD's automated disc library.

Answer 2

A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that can play specially selected songs from self-contained media. The traditional jukebox is rather large with a rounded top and has colored lighting going up the front of the machine on its vertical sides. The classic jukebox has buttons with letters and numbers on them that, when combined, are used to indicate a specific song from a particular record. The German Company Wurlitzer manufactures a special iPod Edition Jukebox dubbed the "One More Time CD- iPod" Jukebox.

Answer 3

Why have 2 of you told jimmy p what a jukebox is and not why it is called a jukebox?

Answer 4

The term "juke box" came into use in the United States in the 1930s, either derived from African-American slang "jook" meaning "dance"

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. The term "juke box" came into use in the United States in the 1930s, either derived from African-American slang "jook" meaning "dance", or being a name given to it by critics who said it would encourage criminal behavior, this came from the fake family name Juke.

juke 1 also jook (jk, jk) KEY Southeastern U.S.

NOUN:

A roadside or rural establishment offering liquor, dancing, and often gambling and prostitution. Also called juke house , juke joint .
intr.v.
juked , also jooked juk·ing , jook·ing jukes , jooks
To play dance music, especially in a juke.
To dance, especially in a juke or to the music of a jukebox.

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ETYMOLOGY:
Probably from Gullah juke, joog, disorderly, wicked, of West African origin; akin to Wolof dzug, to live wickedly, and Bambara dzugu, wicked
Regional Note:
Gullah, the English-based Creole language spoken by people of African ancestry off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina, retains a number of words from the West African languages brought over by slaves. One such word is juke, "bad, wicked, disorderly," the probable source of the English word juke. Used originally in Florida and then chiefly in the Southeastern states, juke (also appearing in the compound juke joint) was an African-American word meaning a roadside drinking establishment that offers cheap drinks, food, and music for dancing and often doubles as a brothel. "To juke" is to dance, particularly at a juke joint or to the music of a jukebox whose name, no longer regional and having lost the connotation of sleaziness, contains the same word.

Answer 6

jukebox first appeared in 1937, from jook joint, Black English slang, from juke, joog "wicked, disorderly," in Gullah (the creolized English of the coastlands of South Carolina, Georgia., and northern Floridaa.), from Wolof and Bambara dzug "unsavory."

Answer 7

The term "juke box" came into use in the United States in the 1930s, either derived from African-American slang "jook" meaning "dance", or being a name given to it by critics who said it would encourage criminal behavior, this came from the fake family name Juke.

Answer 8

juke is an american indian word for music?

Answer 9

no idea but a good question

Answer 10

ask the inventer