Definitions for jakes

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Spelling: [jeyks]
IPA: /dʒeɪks/

Jakes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in jakes (aejks).

Definitions for jakes

noun

  1. an outdoor privy; outhouse.
  2. a toilet or bedpan.
  3. John, born 1932, U.S. novelist.
  4. a homemade or bootleg liquor made from or infused with Jamaica ginger, especially during Prohibition in the U.S.
  5. Also called jake leg, jake-leg paralysis. paralysis caused by drinking this or other liquor made with denatured alcohol.
  6. a male given name, form of Jacob.

Origin of jakes

1525-35; French Jacques, proper name; cf. john

Examples for jakes

jakes says he shared a short but unique bond with Houston that developed on the set of Sparkle late last year.

jakes has spoken about the issue so much that he decided a full-length book on the art of forgiveness was required.

He was dead and cold, jakes, and you may as well know it fust as last.

"He knows a bit better than that," replied jakes, smiling with dark significance.

jakes says he believes in the axiom that the act of forgiveness is not really a gift to others as much as it is a gift to oneself.

But among them was not Mr. jakes, though he needed a stimulus as much as any.

"I've made a few good friends over the years," says jakes with a laugh on the phone from his Texas home.

To jakes adoring eyes it was as the halo about the head of a patron saint.

Nice lot of Hungry jakes to feed with int'rest-bearin' securities!

jakes is not alone in believing that your family must stay your family no matter how hurtful or dysfunctional they may be.

Word Value for jakes
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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