jukebox

noun

juke·​box ˈjük-ˌbäks 

: a coin-operated phonograph or compact-disc player that automatically plays recordings selected from its list

Cable TV … is now bringing you an all-music-video network that is the TV equivalent of a barroom jukebox.

—Peter Ainslie

broadly : any automatic music player that plays selections from a publicly available list

Examples of jukebox in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

One brutal knife fight pauses so a brawler can cue up a song on the jukebox that sounds like something Doris Day would slow-dance to. — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026

Teenagers are catered for with a special Den fitted out with pool tables, table football and a jukebox, plus a mocktail bar. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2026

Their home was filled with numerous instruments, a karaoke machine and two jukeboxes. — Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 16 June 2026

There were drawers containing another jukebox and another bar. — Bruce Handy, New Yorker, 15 June 2026

Word History

Etymology

from dialect jukehouse brothel, from juke to have sexual intercourse with, of Atlantic Creole origin; akin to Jamaican English juk to poke, stab, Krio chuk

First Known Use

1939, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing jukebox

• jukebox musical

Rhymes for jukebox

• aftershocks
• chatterbox
• chickenpox
• equinox
• firebox
• goldilocks
• hollyhocks
• interlocks
• orthodox
• paradox
• tomahawks
• balks

Kids Definition

jukebox

noun

juke·​box ˈjük-ˌbäks 

: a coin-operated phonograph or compact-disc player that automatically plays recordings selected from its list