Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to pierce or stick, as with a needle, thorn or a long pointed stick; to stab.

1869		H.G. Murray ‘Tom Kittle’s Wake’ in D’Costa Voices in Exile (1989) 105: Da big big soger man come [...] and when me see him so wid begnet [bayonet] my heart hab fe da jump so ebery minit, me ting say de man da go jook me wid it.
1926		E. Walrond Tropic Death (1972) 154: Yo’ brute,’ he say. ‘yo whelp, yo’ wan’ to jook out my eye, no! You wan’ to mek me blind, no!’.
1928		R. & B. Quillian ‘Tight Like That’ in Oliver (1984) Songsters and Saints 121: Took his knife and juked him on his yas, yas, yas.
1939		A. Durie One Jamaica Gal 68: An’ wha’ dey wan wi’ jukkin needle in we? Wha’ dey gwine dowi’ de blood? [Ibid.] 69: Wha’ all dis birth-control business? [...] When de doctor come round, doan let him juk yu wid no needle.
1952		S. Selvon ‘Calypsonian’ in Bim V 17 in Selvon (1989) 150: Look you make me chook my hand with that blasted needle.
1970		F. Collymore Notes for Gloss. of Barbadian Dial. 65: Ma, Charlie jook me in the eye with his finger.
1995		Francis-Jackson Official Dancehall Dict. 28: Jook (Ja.) to stick, as with a pin: u. jook’im wid it.
1999		(con. 1979–80) A. Wheatle Brixton Rock (2004) 193: Flynn [...] held [his knife] an inch way from the dread’s good eye. ‘I should jook out your eye, dread!’.
2000		R. Antoni Grandmother’s Erotic Folktales 11: He was sitting up straight in the chair like he wanted to jook he head through the roof.
2000		Observer 3 Dec. 17: Residents say Damilola was the victim of a new form of intimidation. ‘Jucking’ — or stabbing opponents once with a blade to intimidate enemies and show off to friends — is now an everyday occurrence on the estates.
2003		in Camden New Journal (London) 16 Jan. 1/1: One of the two drug dealers [...] said, ‘I’ve seen your face, next time I’ll juk (stab) you.’.
2008		T. Piccirilli Fever Kill 133: His business rivals wound up deep-sixed and knife-juked.
2011		S. Kelman Pigeon English 11: I chooked myself with the fork. It was only in my arm.
2014		Grizzy ‘Look Like You’ 🎵 My young nigga with the rambo / You’ll be getting jooked right through.
2015		86 ‘Mostman’ 🎵 And if you fuck with my mail, fuck with my mail ima leave you like ketchup / Look, look, look, it was my g that juked ya.
2016		Independent 5 Jan. 🌐 There is the edgy street language of gangs which has given us shank and jook for stab; and merk to hurt or humiliate.
2017		Eve. Standard 4 July 8/5: ‘They would just pull out a blade and juk [stab] you in the chest’.
2017		67 Beats Cypher‘’ 🎵 Joog em joog em for my money / Fuck a bro man get muddy.
2017		Loaski ‘Behind barz’ 🎵 I jugg with the tool, splash don’t fall in a pool.
2020		G. Krauze What They Was 153: [I] pull out my shank [...] and just jook jook jook jook jook five times in his back.

2. to hit, to beat up.

1979		L.K. Johnson ‘Sonny’s Lettah’ 🎵 Me jook one [i.e. a policeman] in the eye and him started to cry.
1994		M. Montague Dread Culture 131: Di Bwoy jook mi dung wid him .32 and hold on pon mi hand.
1999		(con. 1979–80) A. Wheatle Brixton Rock (2004) 203: I have to find a quiet spot, then I will jook him up good.
2001		(con. 1981) A. Wheatle East of Acre Lane 43: All kinda man get jook up on dis road fe liccle more dan nutten.
2021		J. Ellroy Widespread Panic 133: We should have mushroomed Moscow after we juked [.e. atom-bombed] the Japs.

3. (also joop) to have sexual intercourse, often quick and casual when the man is keen but the woman is reluctant; thus jooking n.

1939		S. Kennedy ‘Pedro and Estrella’ in the Folklore Project, Federal Writers’ Project, 1936–1940 🌐 I suggest a cafe of some sort — anywhere we can dance and buy drinks. ‘You don’t mean a jook joint, do you?’ Estrella asks. ‘Jooking is for unmarried men.’ ‘That’s what you think,’ replies Pedro, ‘plenty married men go jooking.’ ‘I know they do, but that’s not so good.’ ‘You don’t know what jooking means. Jooking means having a good time anywhere, drinking and dancing. We go somewhere nice.’.
1942		N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 59: Hey, I bet you ain’t got a place. I bet you ain’t even joopin’ her.
1971		Frank Zappa ‘What Kind of Girl Do You Think We Are’ 🎵 Well I get off bein’ juked / With a baby octopus /And spewed upon with creamed corn.
1979		E. Torres After Hours 274: Jooged plenty women too.
1980		J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 225: The dude who was joogin’ her was married.
1989		P. Munro Sl. U.
1994		C. Cooper Female Sexuality in Lyrics of Bob Marley and Shabba Ranks 9: In the words of Shabba Ranks; Wan juk, wan wash [...] A neks man welkom.
2002		Sean Paul [song title] Jukin Punny.
2007		N. McCall Them (2008) 32: Off juking somebody’s daughter, I’m sure.

4. to shoot.

1995

G. Small Ruthless 197: It’s no use playing sweet boy an’ get dead. Me not going to make a youth jook me [shoot] down and gone.

5. to spoil.

2008

T. Piccirilli Fever Kill 78: [It] was the totally wrong move to make. He’d juked the show.

6. to disturb.

2021

J. Ellroy Widespread Panic 14: A hubbub juked the joint. I knew I radiated fuzz.