jake

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Adequate

   Adequate; satisfactory; acceptable.

   • ‘What do you care? Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake.’
   • I never worry that your love is fake / I'm free and easy and I'm feelin' jake
2. 2

   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.
3. 3

   A police officer, a law enforcement officer (sometimes especially one on foot rather than…

   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.
   • And I ain't trying to see no highway chase with Jake
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   1. 4

      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.
   2. 5

      A Discordian prank involving a large number of people sending bizarre letters or parcels…

      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....
      • 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.
   3. 6

      A rustic

      A rustic; a yokel.

   4. 7

      To play a Discordian prank on (somebody), involving a large number of people sending…

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

   5. 8

      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."
      • 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 - -
      • Please “Believe” that Jake Owen will not allow people to diss the LGBTQ community.

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