[ noun ] a cabinet containing an automatic record player; records are played by inserting a coin <noun.artifact>
Jukebox \Juke"box\, n. 1. A phonograph or compact disc player with multiple discs, requiring the insertion of coins prior to playing, and allowing the user to select the playing of any disc in its inventory. An early version was called the {nickelodeon}. [PJC]
2. (Computers) a data-storage device having multiple compact discs, of which only one may be on-line at any given time, which permits the user (through computer commands) to select on-line access to any disc from its inventory, in a manner reminiscent of a musical jukebox[1]. [PJC]
If no one wanted to chat, a jukebox or muted TV set provided the entertainment.
The drawing is surrounded by red and gold lights from a jukebox.
Sure, but not at the expense of living in L.A. or traveling around the country as an itinerant jukebox." "Take up the white man's burden Send forth the best ye breed, Go, bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need.
As if to demonstrate, he dined one night last month at a redneck cafe in Marietta; for the occasion, the owner _ a supporter _ took two racist records off the jukebox.
This is your jukebox talking.
" "I would hate to see it go, plain and simple," says Casagrande, who has a group of customers who conduct impromptu sing-alongs with the help of the jukebox every Friday night.
At one point, as the three lean on their cues between games, snippets of conversation can be heard through the din of a jukebox.
What they have in common are music, a jukebox usually, beer or harder stuff, and their regulars, the same faces this week as last.