Crossword clues for deejay
deejay
- Radio presenter’s shortened act getting the bird
- Radio presenter’s formal jacket spoken of
- Player finding water in Aberdeenshire before birdie
- Platter spinner
- Wedding worker
- Wedding attendee
- Wedding reception hiree
- Music player
- Radio personality
- Wedding spinner
- Wedding music provider ... and a homophonic hint to six puzzle answers
- Top 40 VIP
- Rave V.I.P
- Rave figure
- Live band alternative
- Disc spinner
- Dance runner
- Alan Freed, for one
- Disk spinner
- Record holder?
- Disco spinner
- Wedding band alternative
- Record player?
- Rave V.I.P.
- Party hiree
- Record keeper?
- Wedding hiree
- Entertain a party, in a way
- Record spinner
- Tunes player
- One who plays popular recorded music
- One introducing music reading out two letters
- River bird, one often taking to the air?
- River bird's a source of music
- River bird may be a record holder
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. disc jockey. vb. To perform as a disc jockey.
Wikipedia
Deejay (alternatively spelled DJ) is a term in Jamaican music for a reggae or dancehall musician who sings and "toasts" to an instrumental riddim.
Deejays are not to be confused with disc jockeys from other music genres like hip-hop, where they select and play music. Dancehall/reggae DJs who select riddims to play are called selectors. Deejays who are more likely to sing are sometimes called singjays.
The term deejay came about as a result of the act of some selectors (as they were called) of the 1960s and 1970s such as U-Roy or King Stitt toasting to the version side of popular records of the time. The version came about when the record company produced the 45 record with the song, the flip side of which had the instrumental version of the song. This gave the deejays the chance to make up on-the-fly lyrics to the instrumental music. This occurrence gave rise to deejay toasting and the term has been used in that context ever since.
Usage examples of "deejay".
Usually a fifteen-minute dose of the deejay was enough to last him for weeks.
He sees the deejay, Craig Smith, executing a difficult mix and pulling it off with the casual nonchalance of an experienced New York pizza chef in Little Italy, throwing together one of those appetising creations.
All those girls and the deejay just working them all, knowing that the boys will fall into line.
Even Ewart, that drug-addled cunt, was a top deejay and rumoured to be a millionaire.
I mean, twe months ago I was just this deejay on WNX in Manhattan with a local fan club.
He lowered himself carefully into the chair behind the desk to avoid jarring his ribs and gave Officers Teddy Begayaye, Deejay Hondo, Edison Bai, and Bernadette Manuelito a few moments to inspect the damage.
However, my mates liked fucking deejays and bang bang bang so I went to I-Nation on my own.
The singsong, hyperthyroid patter of the disc jockey introduced the next selection in a rapid, garbled East End imitation of American fast patter deejays, and the room began to vibrate again.
The engineer was dozing in the control room, letting the deejays fend for themselves.
In the wake of the deep freeze and the dark moods it had inspired, the radio weathermen had fled the state, leaving the storm predictions to the weekend deejays.
Bobby Helms had come on singing 'Jingle Bell Rock', a Sound of the Season, as the deejays said, and he had smiled a little, feeling better.
I tried to keep looking around at different dancers, at the deejay, at anything but the man to the vampire's left, the man whose mind I was trying to pick through.