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Prostitute vs Juke - What's the difference?

prostitute | juke |

As nouns the difference between prostitute and juke

is that prostitute is a person who performs sexual activity for payment, especially a woman while juke is (southern us) a roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution or juke can be a feint.

As verbs the difference between prostitute and juke

is that prostitute is (usually reflexively) to perform sexual activity for money while juke is to play dance music, or to dance, in a juke or juke can be to deceive or outmaneuver (someone) using a feint, especially in american football or soccer or juke can be (prison slang) to stab.

prostitute

English

(wikipedia prostitute)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who performs sexual activity for payment, especially a woman
    • I currently work as a prostitute in order to pay off my university debts .
  • A person who is perceived as engaging in sexual activity with many people.
  • A person who does, or offers to do, an activity for money, despite personal dislike or dishonour.

    • Usage notes

    * The noun is gender-neutral.

    Synonyms

    * (person who performs sexual activity for payment) See also * (person perceived as engaging in sexual activity) See also , * (person who does an activity for money) sell out

    Verb

    (prostitut)
  • (usually reflexively) To perform sexual activity for money
  • To make another person, or organisation, prostitute themselves.
  • * Bible, Leviticus xix. 29
    • Do not prostitute thy daughter.
  • (derogatory) To use one's talents in return for money or fame
  • (figuratively) To exploit for base purposes; to whore.
    • Yet again a commercial firm had prostituted a traditional song by setting an advertising jingle to its tune.

    Related terms

    * prostitution

    juke

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) juke, jook, ).(Lorenzo Dow Turner), “West African Survivals in the Vocabulary of Gullah” (Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, 1938)Will McGuire, “Dzug, Dzog, Dzugu, Jook, Juke”, Time, vol. 35, no. 5 (1940), p. 12

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (southern US) A roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution.
    • Synonyms
    * barrelhouse * juke joint
    See also
    * (l)

    Verb

    (juk)
  • to play dance music, or to dance, in a juke

    • Derived terms

    *jukebox *juke joint

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Verb

    (juk)
  • To deceive or outmaneuver (someone) using a feint, especially in American football or soccer
  • *{{quote-news, 2009, January 5, Pat Borzi, Eagles Elude Vikings, but Giants Stand in the Way, New York Times citation
    • , passage=Turning the Vikings'¯ blitz against them, Westbrook took a screen pass from Donovan McNabb , then juked and scooted 71 yards for a touchdown. }}
  • To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.
  • * L'Estrange
    • The money merchant was so proud of his trust that he went juking and tossing of his head.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A feint.
  • The neck of a bird.

    • Etymology 3

    Verb

    (juk)
  • (prison slang) To stab.
  • * 1992 , Ed McBain, Kiss
    • "None'' of the Latinos liked him."
    "So now he's dead."
    "So go talk to the ''other     ten thousand people could've juked him."
  • * 2007 , Teenager filmed by friend as he stabbed 16-year-old student to death'' (in ''Mail Online , 9 February 2007) [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-435076/Teenager-filmed-friend-stabbed-16-year-old-student-death.html]
    • 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."
  • * 2012 , Russell Banks, Book of Jamaica
    • 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.

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