"graft" (especially to disc jockeys from record companies to play their music), 1938 (in a "Variety" headline), from pay off "bribery" (underworld slang from 1930) + ending from Victrola, etc. (see pianola). Compare also plugola (1959), from plug (n.) in the advertising sense.
雙語例句
1. Payola is the oil on which the political machine runs.
賄賂是政治機(jī)器運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)的潤滑油.
來自辭典例句
2. The announcer was fired for taking payola.
播音員因接受賄賂而被解雇了.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
3. I am the program director of my radio station, so where's my payola?