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jake
noun- Jamaica ginger, a potent and dangerous illegally manufactured alcohol US, 1923
- — Jerry Robertson, Oil Slanguage, p. 72, 1954
- methylated spirits as an alcoholic drink UK, 1932
- Jake is meths, in the language of the Row. — Geoffrey Fletcher, Down Among the Meths Men, p. 38, 1966
- They [vagrant alcoholics] subsist on a diet of methylated spirits (jake or the blue), surgical spirit (surge or the white) and other forms of crude alcohol. — Peter Ackroyd, London The Biography, p. 359, 2000
- a vagrant alcoholic addicted to methylated spirits UK
- I came up with a Jake in Charing Cross, and gave him five bob to go and get a meal. — Geoffrey Fletcher, Down Among the Meths Men, p. 39, 1966
- a social outcast US
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 4, Fall 1989
- a person identified as a potential crime victim US
- Prosecutors allege that Everybodytalksabout and Lopez were drinking in Pioneer Square with several other people that morning when someone said they’d spotted a “Jake.” — Seattle Times, p. B3, 13 February 1997
- a uniformed police officer US
- — Carsten Stroud, Close Pursuit, p. 273, 1987
- Every day I escape from jakes givin’ chase, sellin’ base. — RZA, The Wu-Tang Manual, p. 152, 2005
- a Jamaican US
- A real street name for a real Jake, a homeboy in his late twenties who you know lives maybe a block or so from the Fullards. — David Simon, Homicide, p. 613, 1991
- [T]he Jakes are gone, melting into the city’s warm darkness. — David Simon and Edward Burns, The Corner, p. 220, 1997
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