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adjective
- 1. all right; satisfactory: informal North American, Australian, New Zealand "everything was jake again"
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2 meanings: Australian and New Zealand slang 1. satisfactory; all right 2. → See she's jake.... Click for more definitions.
“Jake” was a popular slang word from the Roaring Twenties/Great Depression era and was used to indicate that a person or thing was in good order. Synonyms for “jake” include “okay,” “hunky-dory,” and “copacetic.”
1. a homemade or bootleg liquor made from or infused with Jamaica ginger, esp. during Prohibition in the U.S. 2. Also called: jake leg, jake-leg paralysis. paralysis caused by drinking this or other liquor made with denatured alcohol. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC.
Noun. Singular: jake. Plural: jakes. Origin of Jake. Perhaps from Jake nickname for Jacob or from J-key a portable telegraph key used by firefighters to communicate with the fire station from local telegraph fireboxes. From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun. ˈjāk. Synonyms of jake. : a sexually immature male wild turkey under two years old. jake. 2 of 2. adjective. slang. : all right, fine. Synonyms. Adjective. agreeable. all right. alright. copacetic. copasetic. copesetic. ducky. fine. good. hunky-dory. OK. okay. palatable. satisfactory. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus.
Jake definition: satisfactory; OK; fine. See examples of JAKE used in a sentence.
Sep 27, 2024 · jake (countable and uncountable, plural jakes) (US) A juvenile male turkey. The spring turkey woods are occupied by roaming bands of jakes — year-old males with strong mating urges but inferior body size. (New York, Chicago, MTE, MLE, slang) police, a federal government officer.
There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adjective jake. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.
Definition of Jake in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
jake1 ( jāk), adj.[Slang.] Slang Termssatisfactory; OK; fine:Everything's jake with me. origin, originally uncertain 1895–1900. jake2 ( jāk), n.[Slang.] Slang Termsa homemade or bootleg liquor made from or infused with Jamaica ginger, esp. during Prohibition in the U.S.
