okie-doke
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editClipping of okie-dokie, imitating the naïve responses of those who willingly yet unwittingly agree to the terms of disastrously bad or harmful agreements by saying "okie-doke".
Noun
editokie-doke (countable and uncountable, plural okie-dokes)
- A scheme or stratagem intended to cheat or swindle; trick.
- 2009, Richard Wolffe, Renegade: The Making of a President, page 198:
- Those are the same old tricks. They're trying to bamboozle you. It's the same old okie-doke. Y'all know about okie-doke, right?
- 2012, Clay Walker, Crawling Towards the Light:
- There was an innocent look in his eyes but at this point I am way too guarded to fall for it. I've already been through this once last year when my Army career was ruined. Falling for the okie-doke.
- 2021, D.D. Thompson, Learning to Let Go:
- If we're being honest, at one point or another we all fall for this kind of okie doke.
- Swindling.