videoke
English
Etymology
Blend of video + karaoke. First attested in the 1990s.
Noun
videoke (countable and uncountable, plural videokes)
- (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
Noun
videoke
- 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
- a karaoke session
Verb
videoke
- 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
- IPA(key): /vidˈjoke/ [vɪdˈd͡ʒoː.xɛ]
Noun
videoke (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜇ᜔ᜌᜓᜃᜒ or ᜊᜒᜇᜒᜌᜓᜃᜒ)
- alternative spelling of vidyoke