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karaoke

noun
🔊/ˌkæriˈəʊki/
🔊/ˌkæriˈəʊki/
 [uncountable] (from Japanese)
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  1. a type of entertainment in which a machine plays only the music of popular songs so that people can sing the words themselves卡拉 OK
    • a karaoke machine/night/bar卡拉 OK 机／之夜／酒吧
    Topics Musicb2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryKaraoke is used before these nouns:
    • bar
    • lounge
    • machine
    • …
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    Word Origin1970s: from Japanese, literally ‘empty orchestra’.