ˈjüks noun
( plural jukes “ ; also jukeses -ksə̇z)
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: Jukes, fictitious name of a family that was the subject of a study of hereditary tendencies to crime, immorality, disease, and poverty by Richard L. Dugdale died 1883 American sociologist
: a stupid person
before the Revolution, more than fifty thousand of England's Jukes … poured into the colonies — Charles Hamilton
— compare kallikak