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Singing accompanied by an instrumental soundtrack specifically made for "karaoke machines".
These soundtracks are usually songs in which the main melodic line has been removed (leaving ony the accompaniment intact.) Karaoke is an agglutination of two Japanese words kara (empty) + oke (shortened version of okesutera/orchestra). "Hey do you wanna go out for karaoke later?"
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foreplay. Let's do some karaoke!
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Singing without a live orchestra or band. Originally meaning "without orchestra," it is a combination of Japanese "kara" meaning "empty/bare-handed" as in "karate", and the "okee" sound from the first syllable of "orchestra" as pronounced by Japanese. The guy who thought up karaoke created a bar owner's dream, because as patrons provide their own entertainment by singing along with a machine, management saves a fortune by not hiring talented musicians.
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A Japanese word commonly mispronounced by Americans. See karate Karaoke is pronounced Karah-Okay, not Cary-Okey.
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Process by which one sings a song in front of a group of people, with only musical accompanient and scrolling words. Don't stand. Don't stand so. Don't stand so close to me.
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Japanese for Tone-deaf That CD sucked! They're all karaoke
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n. A display whereby inebriates attempt to sing songs that were once or are now popular (the trend favouring the latter), aided by a badly recorded MIDI soundtrack and words flashing on a monitor. (often derogatory) I know this bar on Bloor Street that has karaoke on Thursdays.
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The reason why I doubt whether God exists. There is no God when every fucking town has a karaoke bar.
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