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jukebox

Noun
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A machine that plays recorded music when selected by a coin or button.

Detailed Definition
A jukebox is a coin-operated machine, often found in diners or bars, that plays songs from a stored selection. In modern poetry it can suggest a mind or memory that keeps replaying the same tunes or thoughts, as in the line about a brain being “stuck on a love sound.”
Example
Example in poetry:
“Now my brain’s a jukebox, stuck on a love sound” compares memory to a coin-operated music machine; “The diner jukebox flashed red beside the empty booth” supplies mid-century Americana; “Her phone became a jukebox of inherited songs” updates the image for digital listening; In metaphor, jukebox can suggest repetition, nostalgia, mechanical desire, or a mind replaying one refrain
Additional Notes
The word appears in the quoted line, and younger readers may not know this older music-machine term.; Found in the poem, Love Junkie by Richard
Also Known As
music box song machine melody dispenser sound carousel
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