What does jook house mean?

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jook house

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.68 in modern English

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"Some old turpentine men say the jook-house was merely a bare building where the Negro laborers could frolic."

jook houses (plural) jook-house (alternative) juke house (alternative)

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