What is a synonym for "jake"?

Common synonyms include: 5-o, acceptable, alphabet, alright, barney, beatsman.

Jake

//d͡ʒeɪk// adj, name, noun, verb, slang

adj, name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level

Noun

1
A juvenile male turkey. US, countable, uncountable
"The spring turkey woods are occupied by roaming bands of jakes — year-old males with strong mating urges but inferior body size."
2
A police officer, a law enforcement officer (sometimes especially one on foot rather than in a patrol car). Multicultural-London-English, New-York, countable, especially, slang, uncountable
"A radio is a box, a razor blade is a ox / fat diamonds is rocks and jakes is cops."
3
Jamaica ginger. US, slang, uncountable
"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."
4
A Discordian prank involving a large number of people sending bizarre letters or parcels to a targeted individual. countable, uncountable
"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...."

Verb

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

Adjective

1
Adequate; satisfactory; acceptable. slang
"‘What do you care? Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake.’"

Proper Noun

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.""

"It was yesterday that Jake broke this window."

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

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