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jook_house

jook house

English

Alternative forms

  • jook-house
  • juke house

Noun

jook house (plural jook houses)

  1. juke joint.
    • 1940 The American Mercury, p. 502:
      Some old turpentine men say the jook-house was merely a bare building where the Negro laborers could frolic.