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Word: okey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 »

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