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jook

1 American  
[jook] / dʒuk /

noun

Scot.
  1. jouk.


jook 2 American  
[jook, jook] / dʒuk, dʒʊk /

noun

Slang.
  1. juke joint.


jook British  
/ dʒʊk /

verb

  1. (tr) to poke or puncture (the skin)

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noun

  1. a jab or the resulting wound

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Etymology

Origin of jook

C20: of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

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The exhibition is divided into 12 conceptual sections: ownership, presence, distinction, disguise, freedom, champion, respectability, jook, heritage, beauty, cool and cosmopolitanism.

From Salon

At a restaurant in New York City’s Chinatown, Ng felt the food to have “delivered me back home,” warm jook reminding her of her mother’s “homemade baby food.”

From New York Times

She could no longer eat, the jook and bone marrow she’d written so passionately about in her memoir replaced by a pricey tube-fed prescription called Liquid Hope.

From Los Angeles Times

Known as juk or jook in Korea, bubur in Indonesia, lugaw in the Philippines and dozens of other names around the world, there are also an endless variety of ways to make it.

From Washington Post

I don’t make jook because it’s easy; I make it because it tastes good, and it’s what I need.

From New York Times