juke

noun

1. (Southern-US, countable)A roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable)Clipping of jukebox.

   “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.”

3. (uncountable)A genre of electronic music native to Chicago, noted for its fast, abstract rhythms; see footwork.

   “All Kouichi Furutono wanted to do was expose Japanese audiences to the skittering sounds of Chicago juke music.”

4. (slang)A feint.
5. (slang)The neck of a bird.

verb

1. To play dance music, or to dance, in a juke.

   “‘Let's jouk’ is an invitation to dance, but ‘Let's go joukin’’ is a request for a date.”

   “I want you to go juking with me... that's riding and stopping to drink and dance”

2. (slang)To hit.
3. (slang)To stab.

   “"None of the Latinos liked him." "So now he's dead." "So go talk to the other ten thousand people could've juked him."”

   “On the internet that night Asghar told a friend: "I'll bang him and then f*** it man, might as well juke [stab] him up tomorrow."”

   “He beat me up a couple of times, and I got scared, so one night when he started up again, I just juked him. Three times in the chest, and it still didn't kill him! But I had to go to jail for a whole year.”

4. (slang)To thrust with the pelvis, in particular for sexual intercourse.

   “Got a ratchet lil bitch and she from Inglewood I'm moving around, I do nothing but jugg I'm fucking these ho like a young nigga should And you'd do the same if you young niggas could”

   “Still pushing Zs and I don’t mean freezing I am still jugging The stripper so hugging The girl still super-bad, missed them a loving”

5. (intransitive, slang)To deceive or outmaneuver someone using a feint, especially in American football or soccer.

   “Turning the Vikings'¯ blitz against them, Westbrook took a screen pass from Donovan McNabb, then juked and scooted 71 yards for a touchdown.”

   “Just before the Hongqi closed to within range of its proximity fuse, Vandal juked hard left and kicked in his afterburners. The first missile sped by without detonating. Vandal juked hard left again, completing a 180-degree turn.”

6. (slang, transitive)To deceive or outmaneuver, using a feint.

   “The runner juked Connor, the runner juked Smith, and Severin centered on him; he was five yards out, he screamed, he was a yard out, he screamed, he hit the kid so hard that both of their helmets flew off their heads.”

   “He juked Judd out of his shoes, reversed his field, juked Tony, juked Nick, and pretty much juked the entire Bobcats kickoff team on the way to a seventy-two yard return for a touchdown.”

7. (intransitive, slang)To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.

   “The Money-Merchant, I warrant ye, was ſo Proud of his Truſt, and of his Bell, that he went Juking and Toſſing of his Head, and Tabring with his Feet all the way, as if no Ground would hold him.”

8. (slang, transitive)To manipulate deceptively.

   “The pilot instinctively juked the nimble chopper, but with so many bullets in the air, and so many of them spreading far from their intended target, it was impossible to evade them all.”

   “Veteran pilots “juked” their bombers to throw off the gunners' aim.”

   “As Roland “Prez” Pryzbylewski knows, there's another problem with treating good stats as good work: They can be juked. “All this so we score higher on the state tests? If we're teaching the kids the test questions, what is assessing in them?"”

   “Schools are ever more adept at juking their admissions stats, using aggressive marketing practices to gin up larger and larger numbers of applicants, many of whom they know they'll never admit (the so-called “attract to reject” strategy)”

9. (slang, transitive)To interrupt a conversation with an unrelated topic.

   “Smith likes juking religion when talking with his family at dinner.”