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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.
    dated

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 name “Poppa Stoppa” and played what would then be called “race 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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