Disc-jockey meaning

An announcer who presents and comments on popular recorded music, especially on the radio.
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A turntablist.
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A person who plays and mixes recorded music at nightclubs, over the radio, and/or as a backup musician for spoken word, or hip hop performers.
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Origin of disc-jockey

  • Previously also called record man, as in Philip Hamburger, Comment, “Comment,” The New Yorker, August 17, 1946, p. 14.

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  • Coined in 1935 by Walter Winchell to describe Martin Block. Appeared in print in Variety in 1941.

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Disc-jockey Sentence Examples

  • You could hire a disc jockey for your party.

  • Ricky Gervais moved on to radio work, where he worked as a disc jockey for London's XFM Radio.

  • Winer discussed the enclosure concept with MTV disc jockey Adam Curry and demonstrated its use by enclosing a Grateful Dead song in his weblog.

  • WiseGeek provides an overview of what you need to succeed as a radio disc jockey.

  • Paul "DJ Pauly D" DelVecchio is from Johnston, Rhode Island and is a popular Disc Jockey from that town.

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