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Meaning of disc jockey | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
ˌdɪsk ˈdʒɒki

Definitions

  1. A person who plays, and sometimes mixes, recorded music at nightclubs, dances, parties, or some other social event; or as a backup musician for spoken word, or hip hop performers.
  2. A person who conducts a radio program of recorded music combined with talk, news, commercials, weather, etc.

Equivalents

Examples

The disc jockey played brilliant music at the party.”
The show he produced first aired on WJMR, a white-owned New Orleans radio station. The show's disc jockey used the namePoppa Stoppa” and played what would then be calledrace music,” the term given to any music produced by African American artists.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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