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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—O

O.K

A telegraphic symbol for “All right” (orl korrect, a Sir William Curtis's or Artemus Ward's way of spelling “all correct”).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
O. P. Riot
O.H.M.S
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