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jake

/d͡ʒeɪk//dʒeɪk/

jake adjective: synonym of OK: adequate, satisfactory, acceptable.

Adjective

jake (comparative more jake, superlative most jake)

  1. (slang) Synonym of OK: adequate, satisfactory, acceptable.
    • ‘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
    Synonyms:
    OK

Noun

jake (countable and uncountable, plural jakes)

  1. (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.1998, Jerome B Robinson, In the Turkey Woods
  2. (Multicultural-London-English, New-York, especially, slang, Chicago) A police officer, a law enforcement officer (sometimes especially one on foot rather than in a patrol car).
    • 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)
    • And I ain't trying to see no highway chase with Jake2004, “99 Problems”, in The Black Album (Jay-Z album), performed by Jay-Z
  3. (US, slang, uncountable) Jamaica 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. A Discordian prank involving a large number of people sending bizarre letters or parcels to a targeted individual.
    • 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)
    • 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)
  5. (US, slang) A rustic; a yokel.

Verb

jake (third-person singular simple present jakes, present participle jaking, simple past and past participle jaked)

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

Proper noun capitalized: Jake

Jake (plural Jakes)

  1. A male given name.
    • 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

jake meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu

jake in Hindi

जेक

jake in Marathi

जेक

jake in Bengali

জেক

jake in Telugu

జేక్
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jake in Malayalam
ജേക്ക്
jake in Kannada
ಜೇಕ್
jake in Punjabi
ਜੇਕ

Examples of jake in a sentence

  • Jake was ordained a high priest when he was called to be a counselor in a bishopric.
  • Jake has more for-real combat skills and less bluster than anyone else around.
  • Jake has been fooling around with a married woman.

All 28 example sentences with jake

Synonyms of jake

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Forms of jake

Adjective
comparativemore jake
superlativemost jake
Noun
pluraljakes
Verb
third-person singular presentjakes
present participlejaking
past participlejaked
pastjaked
Proper noun
pluralJakes

Plural of jake: jakes

Origin of jake

Originally a medieval variant of Jack; today also used as a diminutive form of Jacob and James.

Words formed from jake

Phrases with jake

Words that rhyme with jake

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Questions about jake

What does jake mean?
Jake means synonym of OK: adequate, satisfactory, acceptable.
What is jake in Hindi?
Jake in Hindi is जेक. See Jake meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is jake?
Jake can be an adjective, a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce jake?
Jake is pronounced /dʒeɪk/ (UK).

Words near jake in the dictionary

  1. Jakarta
  2. Jakarta Raya
  3. Jakartan
  4. Jakartans
  5. Jakati
  6. jake
  7. jake brake
  8. jake brakes
  9. Jake it
  10. jake leg
  11. jaked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jake (page history and authors); Jake (page history and authors); jake (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jake (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jake (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jake (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jake (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jake (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jake (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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