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Juke

noun

A small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox. Synonyms: jook, jook house, jook joint, juke house, juke joint.

(football) a deceptive move made by a football player. Synonym: fake.

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"Juke" Quotes from Famous Books

... as not only unbecoming in a respectable chicken farmer, but likely to arouse suspicions as to his origin and previous condition of servitude. "Can't ye see Shaver ain't use to ut? Shaver's a little gent; he's a reg'ler little juke; that's wot Shaver is." ...

— A Reversible Santa Claus • Meredith Nicholson

... Sara Juke, in the bargain basement of the Titanic Department Store, did not know that lint from white goods clogs the lungs, and that the air she breathed was putrefied as from a noxious swamp. Sometimes a pain, sharp as a hatpin, entered between her shoulder ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

Words linked to "Juke" : fake, joint, football, football game, feint