Meanings
plural videokes
- PhilippinescountableuncountableSynonym of karaoke (“form of musical entertainment”).
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“Generously coated in candy-colored skulls and psychedelic scenes of suffering,” the videoke machine, as Manila-based pop critic Alice Sarmiento describes it, plays a loop of a “muzak rendition” of Sinatra's anthem, its lyrics superimposed over video and tabloid headlines about the killings "with the words going up in flames as the song played."
2016, Christine Bacareza Balance, Tropical Renditions: Making Musical Scenes in Filipino AmericaSynonyms: karaoke
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of karaoke (“form of musical entertainment”).
Origin
Blend of video + karaoke. First attested in the 1990s.
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videoke. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/videoke
“videoke.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/videoke. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “videoke,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/videoke.
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