videoke
English
editEtymology
editBlend of video + karaoke. First attested in the 1990s.
Noun
editvideoke (countable and uncountable, plural videokes)
- (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."
Anagrams
editCebuano
editEtymology
editNoun
editvideoke
- 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
editvideoke
- to perform karaoke
Synonyms
editTagalog
editPronunciation
edit- (Standard Tagalog)
Noun
editvideoke (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜇ᜔ᜌᜓᜃᜒ or ᜊᜒᜇᜒᜌᜓᜃᜒ)
- Alternative spelling of vidyoke
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