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jakey adjective- alcoholic UK
- [J]akey lowlife bludgeons fellow jakey lowlife after three-day drinking binge. — Christopher Brookmyre, The Sacred Art of Stealing, p. 196, 2002
- socially inept, unaware of current fashions and trends US
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 4, Fall 1989
- odd looking US
- — American Speech, p. 235, October 1964: “Student slang in Hays, Kansas”
- said of a light jail sentence UK
From JAKE - He wasn’t being locked away forever, just a few months [...] “A Jakey sentence,” someone called it, referring to the comparable stretches winos and down-and-outs tended to get. — Christopher Brookmyre, Boiling a Frog, p. 40, 2000
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