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OK

  [oh-key, oh-key, oh-key] adjective, adverb, interjection, noun, plural OK's, verb, OK'd, OK'ing.
Use o.k. in a Sentence
–adjective
1. all right; proceeding normally; satisfactory or under control: Things are OK at the moment.
2. correct, permissible, or acceptable; meeting standards: Is this suit OK to wear to a formal party?
3. doing well or in good health; managing adequately: She's been OK since the operation.
4. adequate but unexceptional or unremarkable; tolerable: The job they did was OK, nothing more.
5. estimable, dependable, or trustworthy; likable: an OK person.
–adverb
6. all right; well enough; successfully; fine: She'll manage OK on her own. He sings OK, but he can't tap dance.
7. (used as an affirmative response) yes; surely.
8. (used as an interrogative or interrogative tag) all right?; do you agree?
–interjection
9. (used to express agreement, understanding, acceptance, or the like): OK, I'll get it for you.
10. (used as an introductory or transitional expletive): OK, now where were we?
–noun
11. an approval, agreement, or endorsement: They gave their OK to her leave of absence.
–verb (used with object)
12. to put one's endorsement on or indicate one's approval of (a request, piece of copy, bank check, etc.); authorize; initial: Would you OK my application?
Also, O.K., okay.

Origin:
initials of a facetious folk phonetic spelling, e.g., oll or orl korrect representing all correct, first attested in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1839, then used in 1840 by Democrat partisans of Martin Van Buren during his election campaign, who allegedly named their organization, the O.K. Club, in allusion to the initials of Old Kinderhook, Van Buren's nickname, derived from his birthplace Kinderhook, New York

Usage note:
Few Americanisms have been more successful than ok, which survived the political campaign of 1840 that fostered it, quickly lost its political significance, and went on to develop use as a verb, adverb, noun, and interjection. The expression was well known in England by the 1880s. Today ok has achieved worldwide recognition and use. It occurs in all but the most formal speech and writing.
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OK

and okay
  1. interj.
    accepted; agreed. (Initialism. From a jocular, mispelled abbreviation Oll Kerrect.) : So, he said, like, “okay,” and, like, I go “okay.” So we both go “Okay.” Okay?
  2. mod.
    acceptable. : This cake is okay, but not what I would call first rate.
  3. mod.
    acceptably. : She ran okay—nothing spectacular.
  4. n.
    (someone's) acceptance. : I won't give the final okay until I see the plans.
  5. tv.
    to approve something. : She refused to okay our plans.

  6. Go to ak. :
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

OK 
1839, only survivor of a slang fad in Boston and New York c.1838-9 for abbreviations of common phrases with deliberate, jocular misspellings (cf. K.G. for "no go," as if spelled "know go"); in this case, "oll korrect." Further popularized by use as an election slogan by the O.K. Club, New York boosters of Democratic president Martin Van Buren's 1840 re-election bid, in allusion to his nickname Old Kinderhook, from his birth in the N.Y. village of Kinderhook. Van Buren lost, the word stuck, in part because it filled a need for a quick way to write an approval on a document, bill, etc. The noun is first attested 1841; the verb 1888. Spelled out as okeh, 1919, by Woodrow Wilson, on assumption that it represented Choctaw okeh "it is so" (a theory which lacks historical documentation); this was ousted quickly by okay after the appearance of that form in 1929. Okey-doke is student slang first attested 1932.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
O.K.
oll korrect
The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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