dukey

plural dukeys · alternative dookie · alternative dooky

1. UKobsoleteslangA penny gaff.

   Delicate perfumes floated through the theatre; at the penny "dukey," fried fish and hot codlins reminded you more of food than fantasy.

   1919, Thomas McDonald Rendle, Swings and Roundabouts: A Yokel in London, page 50

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   Between the pieces were individual turns, comic songs and dances. […] Simpson, also the proprietor of a Dukey in Queen Square, Westminster, was the aristocrat of the Penny Gaffs.

   1960, Theatre Notebook, volumes 14-16, page 122

1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of dookie (“ostentatiously thick”).

   Yo homeboy, bus this. You're clockin if you think me and my posse would bite your Nine or dukey rope.

   1990, Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, page 245

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   […] dukey rope around his neck. “Looks like another gangsta bit the dust in a driveby in Inglewood last night," the voice announced from the radio."

   2002, Christopher A. Darden, Dick Lochte, L.A. Justice (page 169)