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  • noun A homeless drunk

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  • "Jakey's Gin" by Great Big Sea.

    February 9, 2008

  • All that wealth and privilege in the hands of a few while the streets were full of the dispossessed, the beggars, the jakies, the mad.
    Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (New York: Little Brown & Co., 2004), p. 162.

    May 30, 2016