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jook

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jook  (jk, jk)
n. & v.
Variant of juke1.
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Noun1.jook - a Chinese rice gruel eaten for breakfast
congee
gruel - a thin porridge (usually oatmeal or cornmeal)
2.jookjook - a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox
jook house, jook joint, juke, juke house, juke joint
joint - a disreputable place of entertainment
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In Mules and Men she dramatizes her vulnerability by involving her character Zora in a knife fight in a seedy jook [that is, a bar] that she barely escapes unscathed.
The Zombie in/as the text: Zora Neale Hurston's Tell My Horse by Emery, Amy Fass / African American Review
Getting attention sometimes means going to unusual lengths, such as when the publisher's promotion party for "The Jook," a thriller by Gary Phillips, was held in Phillips' neighborhood barbershop.
Chronicling Los Angeles by GORCHOV, JOULE / Los Angeles Business Journal
Hollywood and Highland has also secured agreements with such successful entertainment entrepreneurs as Quincy Jones - who plans to open a restaurant/nightclub called Q's Jook Joint in the complex - and Peter Holmes a Court of theatrical producer Back Row Productions.
THE PLACES TO BE; STAPLES CENTER ISN'T THE ONLY NEW VENUE THAT'S ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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