jukebox
noun
juke·box ˈjük-ˌbäks 
: a coin-operated phonograph or compact-disc player that automatically plays recordings selected from its list
Cable TV … is now bringing you an all-music-video network that is the TV equivalent of a barroom jukebox.
Peter Ainslie
Peter Ainslie broadly : any automatic music player that plays selections from a publicly available list
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Whether in revivals, jukebox musicals or reimaginings of more distant history, a lot of the dance on Broadway these days is dance of the past. New York Times, 8 June 2022 That ever-morphing lineup made the standard treatment for a jukebox bio musical difficult for the writer, Dominique Morisseau, to pull off. Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2022 Moore, who is retired, joked that the jukebox is also a form of income. Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2022 Exhibits like the jukebox will rotate among guest curators. New York Times, 5 May 2022 Around since the ‘50s, it is rightly famed for several things: its great jukebox, its beer garden, and its double cheeseburgers. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2022 PufferFish's ambience at Metro will be something of a split personality to accommodate two kinds of customers — moody inside, with low lighting and candles, and a party outside, with bossanova on the jukebox. Carol Deptolla, Journal Sentinel, 9 June 2022 In fact, the song gets so much play in the final months of the year that in 2021, a bar banned patrons from playing it on the jukebox before December and then only once a night after that. Sara Netzley, EW.com, 4 June 2022 It’s the end of an era, because the iPod was more than just a portable jukebox. Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2022 See More
New York Times, 8 June 2022 That ever-morphing lineup made the standard treatment for a jukebox bio musical difficult for the writer, Dominique Morisseau, to pull off. Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2022 Moore, who is retired, joked that the jukebox is also a form of income. Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2022 Exhibits like the jukebox will rotate among guest curators. New York Times, 5 May 2022 Around since the ‘50s, it is rightly famed for several things: its great jukebox, its beer garden, and its double cheeseburgers. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2022 PufferFish's ambience at Metro will be something of a split personality to accommodate two kinds of customers — moody inside, with low lighting and candles, and a party outside, with bossanova on the jukebox. Carol Deptolla, Journal Sentinel, 9 June 2022 In fact, the song gets so much play in the final months of the year that in 2021, a bar banned patrons from playing it on the jukebox before December and then only once a night after that. Sara Netzley, EW.com, 4 June 2022 It’s the end of an era, because the iPod was more than just a portable jukebox. Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
from dialect jukehouse brothel, from juke to have sexual intercourse with, of Atlantic Creole origin; akin to Jamaican English juk to poke, stab, Krio chuk
First Known Use
1939, in the meaning defined above