videoke
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
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."
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Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
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 edit
videoke
- to perform karaoke
Synonyms edit
Tagalog edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English videoke, from a blend of video + karaoke.
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Tagalog)
- Rhymes: -oke
- Syllabification: vid‧eo‧ke
Noun edit
videoke (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜇᜒᜂᜃᜒ)
- videoke (karaoke, specifically with video on a screen with lyrics)
- videoke machine (karaoke machine, specifically including video with lyrics on a screen singers read from)