Search Details

Word: doke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...secondary, moving and juking. When you're facing a linebacker you just wiggle your body, watch him go off in one direction and you take off in the other." If all the speed and twisting can be boiled down to one move, it is the "okey-doke." In the jive patter that Simpson sometimes favors, that is the split-second change of direction that makes him unique. "My game is to juke the tough guys," he says. "I put the okeydoke on them, just bounce around and look for daylight. No one is going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Year of the Okey-Doke | 12/24/1973 | See Source »

...Manhattan, Leon James and Fletcher Rivers, ex-partners in a vaudeville act called Moke & Poke, settled their dispute over rights to the title, went their separate ways with new partners -billed as Coke & Poke and Moke & Doke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 12, 1945 | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

...with Clark Newall (Thomas Beck), spoiled son of the idle rich. Jack at 17 is absorbed in his first dinner jacket. Roger at 12 is a sharp little banker charging his brothers usury. Lucy at 10 yearns to be another Katharine Hepburn. Bobby at 5 toddles around gurgling "Okey-doke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 2, 1936 | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...Leandro, Calif., Judson Doke warned a young student to stop his affair with Mrs. Doke, shot him dead when he refused. To the student's funeral Judson Doke sent flowers. "I have nothing against the boy. In many ways he was a nice lad," said Judson Doke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 6, 1934 | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

| 1 |