videoke
English
Noun
videoke (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
Cebuano
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
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /vidˈjoke/ [vɪˈd͡ʒo.xɛ]
- IPA(key): (more native-sounding) /bidˈjoke/ [bɪˈd͡ʒo.xɛ]
- Rhymes: -oke
- Syllabification: vid‧eo‧ke
Noun
videoke (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜇᜒᜂᜃᜒ)
Derived terms
- magvideoke
- pangvideoke
- videokehan
Related terms
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