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you OK

you OK is the ellipsis of are you OK.

Meaning of are you OK

Phrase

are you OK?

  1. Asking if the listener is OK (e.g. not hurt).
    • Annie, are you okay? / So, Annie, are you okay?1987, Michael Jackson, “Smooth Criminal”, in Bad

Questions about you OK

What is you OK the ellipsis of?
You OK is the ellipsis of are you OK.

Words near you OK in the dictionary

  1. you name it
  2. you never know
  3. you never know what you've got till it's gone
  4. you never miss the water till the well runs dry
  5. you never miss the water until the well runs dry
  6. you OK
  7. you only get what you give
  8. you only go around once
  9. you only go around once in life
  10. you only live once
  11. you pays your money and you takes your chances

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Adapted from Wiktionary: you OK (page history and authors); are you OK (page history and authors). 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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