OK

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   in a satisfactory or adequate manner

   They'll do okay on their own.

2. 2
   adj

   being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition

   The watch is ok.

3. 3
   noun

   an endorsement

   We got the ok from the president.

4. 4
   verb

   to give sanction to

   I oked the resolution.

5. 5
   noun

   Endorsement; approval; acceptance; acquiescence.

   We can start as soon as we get the OK.

6. 6
   verb

   To approve; to accept; to acquiesce to.

   I don't want to OK this amount of money.

7. 7
   verb

   To confirm by activating a button marked OK.

   Type a suitable name for your Marker and OK the dialogue box.

8. 8
   adj

   All right, acceptable, permitted.

   Is it OK if I spend the night?

Etymology

Origin disputed. Wikipedia lists many possible etymologies, of which the most widely accepted is that it is an abbreviation of oll/orl korrect, a comical spelling of all correct, which first appeared in print in The Boston Morning Post on March 23, 1839, as part of a fad for similar fanciful abbreviations in the United States during the late 1830s. The expression became popular through its use in the presidential campaign of Martin Van Buren in 1840, who was nicknamed Old Kinderhook, and then slowly acquired other meanings. The Choctaw word oke, okeh (“it is so”), common in Choctaw translation…