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How to pronounce karaoke in English?

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Type of singing, vocalizing

Examples of karaoke

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Karaoke, trivia nights and pool comps keep the locals coming in during the week.
From the cairns.com.au
From Neil Diamond to Lady Gaga, karaoke DJs have songbooks to satisfy any taste.
From the delawareonline.com
I'd still go out with friends to karaoke but I knew I was much bigger than them.
From the mirror.co.uk
Tim Urban didn't even sound like he could hit the notes, it as like bad karaoke.
From the tunedin.blogs.time.com
A man named Chang Qin Zhou, 32, was in a back karaoke room at the basement club.
From the nytimes.com
By using this technology, they can convert almost any song into a karaoke track.
From the techcrunch.com
His parents later bought him a karaoke machine and he's been singing ever since.
From the abcnews.go.com
So who will be the next singer to leap from the karaoke circuit to superstardom?
From the abcnews.go.com
In China many hair salons, massage parlours and karaoke bars double as brothels.
From the economist.com
More examples
  • Singing popular songs accompanied by a recording of an orchestra (usually in bars or nightclubs)
  • Karaoke is a form of entertainment in which an amateur singer or singers sing along with recorded music.
  • Thr33 Ringz Billboard.com. Accessed May 22, 2008. is the third studio album by American R&B singer-songwriter-rapper T-Pain. It was released in the U.S. on November 11, 2008 (see 2008 in music), debuting at number 4 on the Billboard 200 at number 1 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart. ...
  • Karaoke is a British television drama written by Dennis Potter with the knowledge that he was dying from cancer of the pancreas.
  • A form of entertainment popular in clubs, at parties, etc, in which individual members of the public sing along to pre-recorded instrumental versions of popular songs, the lyrics of which are displayed for the singer on a screen in time with the music
  • A Japanese word which loosely translates as "empty orchestra," describing the concept of providing a singer with background accompanimnet music (usually including background/harmony vocals). ...
  • Popular nightclub style from Japan where customers sing the melody to accompanying prerecorded tracks
  • Singing with taped music