juke

Other forms of juke

plural

jukes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about juke

What does juke mean?

juke means "a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in juke?

juke has 1 syllable: juke. In IPA it is /ˈdʒuk/.

What is another word for juke?

Close synonyms include jook, juke joint, jook joint, juke house, jook house. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is juke a common word?

juke is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.