• Jake

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /dÊ’eɪk/

    Full definition of jake

    Adjective

    jake

    1. (slang) Adequate; satisfactory; acceptable.
      • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 126:‘What do you care? Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake.’

    Noun

    jake

    (plural jakes)
    1. (US) A juvenile male turkey.
      • 1998, Jerome B Robinson, In the Turkey WoodsThe spring turkey woods are occupied by roaming bands of jakes — year-old males with strong mating urges but inferior body size.
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