Meanings
plural jook houses · alternative jook-house · alternative juke house
- juke joint.
Some old turpentine men say the jook-house was merely a bare building where the Negro laborers could frolic.
1940, The American Mercury,, page 502
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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jook house. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jook%20house
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