wurlitzer

/wˈɝlɪtsɚ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.03 in modern English

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noun

"He put a quarter in the Wurlitzer, and he pushed / Three buttons and the thing began to whirr"
"Frenchy was dancin' over by the jukebox, the old Wurlitzer with the neon-type lights that wrapped in an arc over the top and down almost to the floor. Well, it's an old Wurlitzer now but it was pretty new then."

Borrowed from German Wurlitzer; the jukebox is named after Franz Rudolph Wurlitzer (1831-1914).

Wurlitzers (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce wurlitzer?

The recorded pronunciation is /wˈɝlɪtsɚ/.

What does wurlitzer mean?

A surname from German.

Where does wurlitzer come from?

It is traced to German.

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