Meanings
a-okay1
comparative more a-okay · superlative most a-okay
- Alternative letter-case form of A-okay.
A-okay2
comparative more A-okay · superlative most A-okay · alternative a-okay · alternative AOK · alternative A-OK
- colloquialIn perfect order; thoroughly acceptable.First known use 1950s
1952, advertisement by Midvac Steels. "The Golden Age of Advertising - the 50s", p. 57, Ed. Jim Heimann, Taschen 2005. A-OK for tomorrow's missile demands.
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1970, Mike Brewer and Tom Shipley, Tarkio, "Oh Mommy" It says right there in the constitution, It's really A-okay to have a revolution, When the leaders that you choose Really don't fit their shoes.
Any KOA is A-OK as long as I'm with you.
2013, Kacey Musgraves, My HouseSynonyms: okay
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveIn perfect order; thoroughly acceptable.
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Origin
First attested in 1952 in the US, popularized in the 1960s by John A. Powers as NASA's public affairs officer for Project Mercury: the "voice of Mercury Control". Intensive form of okay, presumably "all [systems] okay".
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