uke
IPA: jˈuk
noun
- (judo, martial arts) The training partner against whom tori performs a move.
- (Japanese fiction, fandom slang) A passive or submissive male fictional character in a same-sex relationship; a bottom.
- (colloquial) A Ukrainian.
- (informal) Clipping of ukulele. [A small four-stringed guitar.]
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Examples of "uke" in Sentences
- The best and fastest way to learn the uke is to be a part of an ukulele community.
- For people who have music in their heart but lack the inborn talent to express it, the uke is an easy instrument to master.
- Behind the uke is the album's biggest strength: a selection of some of the best beat sampling you're likely to hear this year.
- I would also have thought that your uke was a girl; he looks like he has pigtails and larger breasts than a couple of girls I used to know.
- The little instrument was so inexpensive and easy to play that by the early 1920s the uke was the most popular instrument in the American home and the first musical voice for millions of children.
- Sure, a uke is a pretty portable stringed instrument, but it hasn't got anything on this microscale guitar, 10 micrometers long, that requires an atomic force microscope or similar to pluck its tiny strings.
- This "Tickler" brand uke is a one-of-a-kind fine art object which is entirely painted in oils on all sides by myself, Amy Crehore, with my trademark motifs: "The Banana Eater" image is on the back (from my "Monkey Love" series), a monkey and "little pierrot" combination are painted on the front.
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