jake

comparative more jake · superlative most jake

1. slangSynonym of OK: adequate, satisfactory, acceptable.

   I never worry that your love is fake I'm free and easy and I'm feelin' jake

   1983, Chris Bostock, Dig Wayne, “Just Got Lucky”, performed by JoBoxers

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   ‘What do you care? Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake.’

   1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 109

   Wouldn't you just like to see me now, Marion, wouldn't you? I'm not bitter. O no. I'm quite calm. Completely relaxed. But when you come to me in Mayfair when things are as they ought to be, don't try to move in and think things are going to be jake again.

   1955, J P Donleavy, The Ginger Man, published 1955 (France), page 289

   Archie Goodwin: Good, good. Now, everything's provided for. The corn. Everything. Yeah, everything's jake. Nero Wolfe: There's good slang and there's bad slang, and that's bad slang. Archie Goodwin: Ah.

   2002 May 5, Lee Goldberg et al., “Murder Is Corny”, in Nero Wolfe

   Synonyms: OK

plural jakes

1. UScountableuncountableA 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.

   1998, Jerome B Robinson, In the Turkey Woods

2. Multicultural London EnglishNew YorkcountableespeciallyslanguncountableChicagoA police officer, a law enforcement officer (sometimes especially one on foot rather than in a patrol car).

   And I ain't trying to see no highway chase with Jake

   2004, “99 Problems”, in The Black Album (Jay-Z album), performed by Jay-Z

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   A radio is a box, a razor blade is a ox / fat diamonds is rocks and jakes is cops.

   1998, Big L, Ebonics (Criminal Slang)

   Synonyms: 5-O, alphabet, barney, beatsman, bizzie, bluebottle, bluecoat, blue heeler

3. USslanguncountableJamaica ginger.

   It is possible that the governments have found the cause of the poisoned “jake” in their investigations into the Jamaica ginger deaths throughout the South and Southwest.

   1930, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, Administration of Federal Food and Drugs Act: Hearings..., page 1854

4. countableuncountableA Discordian prank involving a large number of people sending bizarre letters or parcels to a targeted individual.

   It strikes me that organizing a jake over the net is a bad idea, because Hormel could conceivably find out about it before it happens. That's not going to stop me from participating though.

   1994, Matthew Morse, “StarTrek”, in alt.discordia (Usenet)

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   Hello, I'm afraid in some regards I'm too discordian for my own good and I forgot to either write down the jake-dupe's address, or include it in my repost when I suggested today as jake day....

   1993, selvarv, the keeper of Rig, “Today's impending JAKE!”, in alt.discordia (Usenet)

   Call me old fashioned, but this situation is really inappropriate for a jake. […] I mean that a little girl was seriously injured, […] and we, as Discordians, should have more respect for the holy tradition of the jake, and use its powers only for those situations where it can actually do some good, or at least be worth a good laugh.

   1999, Jeff X. Mink, “My Christmas Card!”, in alt.discordia (Usenet)

5. UScountableslanguncountableA rustic; a yokel.

present singular third person jakes · participle present jaking · participle past jaked · past jaked

1. transitiveTo play a Discordian prank on (somebody), involving a large number of people sending bizarre letters or parcels to that person.

plural Jakes

1. A male given name.

   Please “Believe” that Jake Owen will not allow people to diss the LGBTQ community.

   2019 June 27, Lisa Respers France, “Country star Jake Owen claps back at anti-LGBTQ commenter”, in CNN, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2026

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   Brett smiled at him. "I've promised to dance this with Jacob," she laughed. "You've a hell of a biblical name, Jake."

   1927, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 3, in The Sun Also Rises

   Her attendant - Jake, she had called him, which seemed an appropriate name for a redheaded, no-neck redneck with the muscles of a dedicated weight lifter - -

   1985, Ed McBain, Snow White and Rose Red, page 10