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uke | juke |

As a proper noun uke

is .

As a noun juke is

(southern us) a roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution or juke can be a feint.

As a verb 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.

uke

English

Etymology 1

From by shortening.

Noun

(en noun)
  • Ukulele.
    • English clippings

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The training partner against whom tori performs a move.
  • (Japanese fiction) A passive or submissive male fictional character in a same-sex relationship; a bottom.
  • * 2008 , Tan Bee Kee, "Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-Language Yaoi Fanfiction", in Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre (eds. Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry & Dru Pagliassotti), McFarland & Company (2008), ISBN 9780786441952, page 142:
    • Yaoi uke in fanfics often bear the brunt of stereotypical "negative female characteristics" such as passivity, helplessness, and masochism.
  • * 2010 , Pentabu, My Girlfriend's a Geek , Volume 1, Yen Press (2012), ISBN 9780316221801, unnumbered page:
    • You'd rather have Sebas be an uke ?
  • * 2010 , Kyoka Wakatsuki, "Afterword", in The Selfish Demon King , Digital Manga Publishing (2010), ISBN 9781569701324, unnumbered page:
    • Shizuku is so, so, so'' cute! I love him as an ''uke so much I can't stand it!
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    • Antonyms
    * seme ----

    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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