A-okay

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˌeɪ.əʊˈkeɪ/    美 /ˌeɪ.oʊˈkeɪ/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. In perfect order; thoroughly acceptable. colloquial
    — 1952, advertisement by Midvac Steels. "The Golden Age of Advertising - the 50s", p. 57, Ed. Jim Heimann, Taschen 2005. A-OK for tomorrow's missile demands.

词形变化

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词源

First attested in 1952 in the US, popularized in the 1960s by John A. Powers as NASA's public affairs officer for Project Mercury: the "voice of Mercury Control". Intensive form of okay, presumably "all [systems] okay".
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