a cabinet containing an automatic record player; records are played by inserting a coin
"The old jukebox in the corner of the diner still works, allowing us to play our favorite songs by dropping a quarter into the slot."
A coin-operated machine that plays recorded music; it has push-buttons to make selections.
"The teenager sat on the curb and waited for his friend to return from buying a single from the nearby jukebox."
In plain English: A jukebox is an old-fashioned machine that plays music when you put coins into it to choose your song.
"We selected our favorite song from the jukebox in the hallway."
Usage: A jukebox is specifically an automated, coin-operated device with buttons for selecting songs rather than one played by a human DJ or streamed digitally today. You can use the verb form "to juke" when describing someone playing tracks on such a machine in casual conversation.
To play and listen to music from a jukebox.
"The teenagers gathered around the machine to play and listen to music from the jukebox."
In plain English: To jukebox something is to play it automatically on a machine that takes coins and has buttons for different songs.
"The singer decided to jukebox her greatest hits during the encore performance."
The word "jukebox" was coined in 1939 by combining "juke," a term for a roadside café, with "box." It replaced earlier descriptive phrases like "nickel-in-a-slot phonograph" to name the coin-operated music machine.