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jakey

/ ˈdʒeɪkɪ /

noun

  1. slang,  a homeless alcoholic

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of jakey1

C20: from jake a tramps' word for a drinker of meths
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The trend started on TikTok and it features "sleepfluencers" like Jakey Boehm and Stanley - aka StanleyMov - who says he makes enough from his occasional sleep streams to pay his rent.

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"Jakey has been playing unbelievable lately," Anderson said.

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“In some ways, he’s still the same old Jakey,” his Aunt Varda told me.

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Justin Blake has been referring to his nephew as “Little Jakey” in media interviews, rejecting the notion that the knife discovered on the driver’s side floorboard of Blake’s vehicle posed a threat dire enough to shoot Jacob seven times in the back.

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She says Jakey was gone when she returned and her father misled her to believe he was dead and not missing.

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