Adjective

jake (comparative more jake, superlative most jake)

Positive jake

Comparative more jake

Superlative most jake

1. (slang) Adequate; satisfactory; acceptable.

   Last week I was a bit down on my luck, but now everything's jake.

Noun

Singular jake

Plural jakes

jake (plural jakes)

1. (US) A juvenile male turkey.
   • 1998, Jerome B Robinson, In the Turkey Woods

     The spring turkey woods are occupied by roaming bands of jakes — year-old males with strong mating urges but inferior body size.

Jake

Jake is a modern, shortened form of the male name Jacob

Individuals named Jake include:

• Jake Thomas, (b. 1990), American actor and singer
• Jake Hager, (born 1982) professional wrestler
• Jake Arnott, British novelist
• Jake Gyllenhaal, actor
• Jake Bradford-Sharp, drummer for progressive rock band The Reasoning
• Jake Humphrey, children's and football presenter
• Jake LaMotta, former world middleweight champion boxer who was later portrayed by Robert De Niro in the 1980 film Raging Bull
• Jake Locker, 2007 starting quarterback for the Washington Huskies
• Jake Long, a former offensive tackle for the college football Michigan Wolverines, who now plays for the Miami Dolphins
• Jake Plummer, a National Football League quarterback
• Jake Roberts, a professional wrestler, a.k.a, Jake the Snake
• Jake T. Austin, child actor
• Jake Steinfeld, an American actor and fitness personality

Fictional characters named Jake include:

• Jacob David "Jake" Harper, a main character in TV comedy series Two and a Half Men
• Jake Featherston, Hitler-like dictator in Harry Turtledove's Timeline-191 series
• American Dragon: Jake Long, title character in an animated television series which airs on Disney Channel
• Jake, a video game character in the Ape Escape series
• Jake, a pet dog of Betty Spaghetty
• Jake, the main character dog in the game Dog's Life
• Jake Fischer, a character played by Ashton Kutcher in the film The Guardian
• Jake 2.0, title character in a science fiction television series that aired from 2003 to 2004 on UPN
• Jake Berenson, a character from the Animorphs book series by K. A. Applegate
• Jake Spidermonkey, a main character in My Gym Partner's a Monkey
• J.J. "Jake" Gittes, the cop turned detective and main character in Roman Polanski's 1974 film Chinatown
• Jake Blues, lead vocalist of The Blues Brothers band and one of the main characters in The Blues Brothers film
• Jake Chambers, a boy and one of the main characters in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series
• Jake Green, the protagonist of the TV series Jericho
• Jake the Peg, a three-legged man, the subject of a song sung by Rolf Harris

Jake may also refer to:

• "The Jake," nickname of the Major League Baseball stadium once known as Jacobs Field, now Progressive Field
• Jake brake, a particular brand of engine brake
• Jake, a slang term in the United States for Jamaica ginger extract
• Jake, a slang term used in Discordianism to describe a prank, often celebrated on Jake Day
• Jake / Bot2, one of the ROVs used during the filming of the documentary Ghosts of the Abyss
• Jake the Alligator Man, an oddity on view in Long Beach, Washington
• Less Than Jake, a skate punk band
• The Japanese World War II reconnaissance floatplane, the Aichi E13A, Allied reporting name "Jake"
• Jake the Peg (Rolf Harris song)