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A-okay

/ˌeɪ.əʊˈkeɪ/ · adj

Meaning

  1. In perfect order; thoroughly acceptable.

Etymology / origin

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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