"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.
实用例句
1. Payola is the oil on which the political machine runs.
贿赂是政治机器运转的润滑油.来自辞典例句
2. The announcer was fired for taking payola.
播音员因接受贿赂而被解雇了.来自互联网
3. I am the program director of my radio station, so where's my payola?
