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disc jockey

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1. disc jockey - Noun

2. disc jockey - Verb

Meaning

a person who announces and plays popular recorded music

comment on music to be played

Source: WordNet

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disc-jockey

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This is D. J., Disc Jockey to America turning off. Vietnam, hot dam. Norman Mailer

I used to listen to the radio, and when I was about 18 years old, B.B. King was a disc jockey and he had a radio program, 15 minutes a day, over in West Memphis, Arkansas, and he would play the blues. Koko Taylor

I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band. Lawrence Welk

The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing. Tom T. Hall

I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey. Calvin Trillin

I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it was low-class black music. We thought what we needed was a new name. But a white disc jockey named Alan Freed laid on it, and he thought up the name 'rock n' roll.' Jesse Stone

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