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English

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Etymology

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

Noun

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videoke (countable and uncountable, plural videokes)

  1. (Philippines) 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.
    • 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."

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Cebuano

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Etymology

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From English videoke.

Noun

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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

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videoke

  1. to perform karaoke

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Tagalog

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Pronunciation

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  • (Standard Tagalog)
    • IPA(key): /vidˈjoke/ [vɪˈd͡ʒoː.xɛ]
      • IPA(key): (more native-sounding) /bidˈjoke/ [bɪˈd͡ʒoː.xɛ], (more native-sounding, no yod coalescence) /bidˈjoke/ [bɪd̪ˈjoː.xɛ]
      • Rhymes: -oke
      • Syllabification: vid‧eo‧ke
    • IPA(key): /videˈoke/ [vɪ.d̪ɛˈoː.xɛ]
      • IPA(key): (more native-sounding) /bideˈoke/ [bɪ.d̪ɛˈoː.xɛ]
      • Rhymes: -oke
      • Syllabification: vi‧de‧o‧ke

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videoke (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜇ᜔ᜌᜓᜃᜒ or ᜊᜒᜇᜒᜌᜓᜃᜒ)

  1. Alternative spelling of vidyoke