the word "juke"

pls guys, who knows what the verb to juke is (or to jook). is it slang?? or informal style?

 

I think it is a slang term, meaning to to avoid somebody trying to catch and/or tackle you.

 

actually it means drinking and dancing to the music of juke box, the word from southern us. not sure if its a slang term. perhaps dialect??

 

and please one more thing to clear out.

in the book that was written in 40-50. i saw the term ******. it's taboo now, but in those years people perhaps used it in a different context, or the term was less offensive.
the question is, what did the word ****** mean in 40-50?

 

But why should she get a dictionary if we've got you here ISJ?

 

i got this dictionary, i know what it means. but the dict-ry doesnt say a word about the style, i need to know what the word means in linguistic terms - is slang, dialect ot informal style.

 

Southeastern U.S. <----Dialect, appearantly.

 

good, now enlighten me with the word ******. see above.

 

i think that depends on what type of context you use it in

 

****** means now what it did in the 40's and 50's, only now people aren't so tolerant of it. It was much more common and more widely accepted as appropriate in the 40's and 50's; that is the only difference.


Edit: It is basically just a racial slur used towards black people, denoting ignorance and worthlessness. Best description I can give there.

 

were black people in 50 still somewhat slaves or did they already have equal rights??

 

in the south there was still segregarion until the 60's, separate schools, bathrooms, water fountains.

 

I mean they were free, but they were nowhere near treated equally. Still segregation going on at that time and things of that nature. Why don't you do some research on this shit?

 

wait, so does it mean that until 60 in the south afro-amercans were considered as a second kind of human, in reality no rights at all, and they did some dirty job for white people?? is that right??

 

they had their own second class schools etc., they were not equals that is correct. they might work right alongside poor white people though.

They had their own communities, separate from the white people a lot of the time

 

Hmmmmm one town in Georgia didn't allow African Americans to live there until the early 1980's.