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Ike

proper nounproper nounnouncommon in dialogue

  • //aɪk//

A diminutive of the male given name Isaac.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the male given name Isaac.

proper noun

  1. 1

    Dwight D. Eisenhower.

    Everybody likes Ike—for president.

Etymology

From Eisenhower. His siblings also used the nickname, but Dwight D. Eisenhower was the only one who kept it by the Second World War.

noun

  1. 1

    An Eisenhower dollar.

Forms

plural
Ikes
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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).