Talk:okey-doke
Okey-doke[edit]
Just heard this used for a QB sidestepping a defender while running the ball. “The old okey-doke.” Not known to me. Jo3sampl (talk) 21:40, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
Ah —-
“By the 1930s, Americans, mostly white Americans, in need of a joking way to agree to something or affirm it, began using the term "okey-dokey." In that sense OK, O.K., okay and even okey-dokey are kind of relentlessly positive, too. And, that's what makes the meaning and public use of the term okey-doke by the nation's first black president all the more interesting. You see, the term, "okey-doke," meaning some sort of trick, game, scam, attempt to fool, shortchange, deceive or mislead, also came into use in the 1930s, principally among African Americans. And it, obviously has a not-so-positive meaning. Okey-doke is the kind of thing you need to look out for, be aware of, against which you must keep up your guard. And, of course, in 1930s America, that, too, was a significant feature of the African-American experience. And, given that Metcalf and others who study language say the term is still in widespread use among African Americans today, readers can take from that what they will. So. Got that? Okay. No okey-doke here. We're done.” — https://www.myajc.com/news/the-old-okey-doke-obamism-some-americans-don-know/yW4oz2mu9k7G4kruimEFCM/ — Atlanta Journal-Constitution