videoke

English

Etymology

Blend of video +‎ karaoke. First attested in the 1990s.

Noun

videoke (countable and uncountable, plural videokes)

  1. (Philippines) Synonym of karaoke (form of musical entertainment).
    • 2016, Christine Bacareza Balance, Tropical Renditions: Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America:
      “Generously coated in candy-colored skulls and psychedelic scenes of suffering,” the videoke machine, as Manila-based pop critic Alice Sarmiento describes it, plays a loop of a “muzak rendition” of Sinatra's anthem, its lyrics superimposed over video and tabloid headlines about the killings "with the words going up in flames as the song played."

Anagrams

Cebuano

Etymology

From English videoke.

Noun

videoke

  1. a karaoke; a form of entertainment popular in clubs, at parties, etc, in which individual members of the public sing along to pre-recorded instrumental versions of popular songs, the lyrics of which are displayed for the singer on a screen in time with the music
  2. a karaoke session

Verb

videoke

  1. to perform karaoke

Synonyms

Tagalog

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog)
    • IPA(key): /vidˈjoke/ [vɪdˈd͡ʒoː.xɛ]
      • IPA(key): (with nativization) /bidˈjoke/ [bɪdˈd͡ʒoː.xɛ], (with nativization, no palatal assimilation) /bidˈjoke/ [bɪd̪ˈjoː.xɛ]
      • Rhymes: -oke
      • Syllabification: vid‧eo‧ke
    • IPA(key): /videˈoke/ [vɪ.d̪ɛˈoː.xɛ]
      • IPA(key): (with nativization) /bideˈoke/ [bɪ.d̪ɛˈoː.xɛ]
      • Rhymes: -oke
      • Syllabification: vi‧de‧o‧ke

Noun

videoke (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜇ᜔ᜌᜓᜃᜒ or ᜊᜒᜇᜒᜌᜓᜃᜒ)

  1. alternative spelling of vidyoke