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Word: hokay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign workers with the cheerful promise to vote for everybody. "Hey, Louie!" yelled a friend. "See you pan hana [after work]? Plenty feesh at Kapukamoi!" Replied Louie in pidgin English: "No more da car. Da ole lady bin go Lihue today." "I pick you up?" offered the friend. "Hokay!" yelled Louie, as he ducked into the schoolhouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAWAII: The Big Change | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...before the fun began. Grumbled City Editor John McMullan of the Miami Herald: "It's insane to go all this distance for a beer." But the newsmen rallied to go out on the town, happily gawked at bare-breasted stripteasers, encountered flocks of B-girls ("Darling, ees eet hokay eef I have anod-der veeskie?"), and learned to down the whisky bamby: a $5 wallop of orange and pineapple juice built around a big dollop of Scotch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Barrel of Fun | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...natcherly) strawnger So Churchill hokay in a seer ius way But a (sob) laff is more needed by pipple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1950 | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

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