Meaning

(slang) Adequate; satisfactory; acceptable..

Definitions by Sense

1. (slang) Adequate; satisfactory; acceptable.
2. (US) A juvenile male turkey.
3. (slang, especially New York, Chicago, MTE, MLE) A police officer, a law enforcement officer (sometimes especially one on foot rather than in a patrol car).
4. (US, slang, uncountable) Jamaica ginger.
5. A Discordian prank involving a large number of people sending bizarre letters or parcels to a targeted individual.
6. (US, slang) A rustic; a yokel.
7. (transitive) To play a Discordian prank on (somebody), involving a large number of people sending bizarre letters or parcels to that person.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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

The spring turkey woods are occupied by roaming bands of jakes — year-old males with strong mating urges but inferior body size.

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

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

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.

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....

Word Forms

• more jake
• most jake
• jakes
• jaking
• jaked

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Use jake when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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