Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a swindle, a confidence trick.

1957		D. Burley N.Y. Amsterdam News 7 Dec. 13: Childs [restaurant] went for the okey doke and set up a date for the dinner .
1964		R. Abrahams Deep Down In The Jungle 210: The reason I took you for the okey-doke, is because you was the sharpest nigger in town.
1967		Babs Gonzales I Paid My Dues 126: Elaine went for o-ke-doke and gave him the bread.
1973		Time 24 Dec. 57: My game is to juke the tough guys [...] I put the okey-doke on them, just bounce around and look for daylight.
1998		Big L ‘Ebonics’ 🎵 A kite is a note, a con is a okey doke.

2. stupidity, foolish talk.

1969		‘Iceberg Slim’ Pimp 39: I [...] got the chance to stay until the mid-term of the Sophomore year when I went for the ‘okey-doke’. I took a bootlegging rap for a pal.
1976		M. Braly False Starts 230: I wasn’t going for the okie-doke, I wasn’t going to stand around the yard talking Cadillacs and rolling Bull Durham.
1994		Rebennack & Rummel Under A Hoodoo Moon 179: Things sort of dissolved into one big wall of smoking, toking, and no okey-doking.
2005		J. Stahl I, Fatty 79: From the second he gave me the okey-doke on the stairs Pathé always made me uneasy.

3. white values and opinions.

1994

N. McCall Makes Me Wanna Holler (1995) 279: Working-class brothers got hip and figured out ways to pull the okeydoke.

4. (US und.) unsophisticated crimes of force (as opposed to such as drug dealing).

1975

E. Torres Carlito’s Way 20: [F]orget about that okey-doke shit—gorilla-ing people, robbing pads—the shit is on [...] —the junk is already here. [...] Got to be cool, stay clean.

5. the best, the utimate.

2002

‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 157: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] The realest. The joint. Da bomb. The okee-doke. The County blues.