poke
IPA: pˈoʊk
noun
- A prod, jab, or thrust.
- (US, slang) A lazy person; a dawdler.
- (US, slang) A stupid or uninteresting person.
- An old, worn-out horse.
- (US) A device to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences, consisting of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.
- (computing, dated) The storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a program or to cheat at a video game.
- (informal, social media) A notification sent to get another user's attention on social media or an instant messenger.
- A poke bonnet.
- (baseball, slang) A hit, especially an extra base hit.
- (Appalachia) A sack or bag.
- A long, wide sleeve.
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland) An ice cream cone.
- (dialectal) Pokeweed.
- (Hawaii) Slices or cubes of raw fish or other raw seafood, mixed with sesame oil, seaweed, sea salt, herbs, spices, or other flavorful ingredients.
- A surname.
verb
- To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick.
- To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning.
- (figuratively) To rummage; to feel or grope around.
- (transitive, computing, dated) To modify the value stored in (a memory address).
- (transitive) To put a poke (device to prevent leaping or breaking fences) on (an animal).
- (transitive) To thrust at with the horns; to gore.
- (transitive, informal, social media) To notify (another user) of activity on social media or an instant messenger.
- (transitive) To thrust (something) in a particular direction such as the tongue.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To penetrate in sexual intercourse.
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Examples of "poke" in Sentences
- * piak piak* or * poke poke* also doesn't matter la ..
- The option to poke is still there. lansing wedding photographer
- If you slacked you were given a poke from a guard with his Bayonet.
- with no interwebz Frank had with no interwebz Frank had to poke his friends manually *poke*
- This means you have to write this time, not just take 5 quizzes and put up the results ... * poke poke*
- She is so desirous by a tattoos which she regularly stays in poke of engaging as well as symbolic tattoos.
- Yes, a poke is one of the lowest forms of communication, but in the case where a person fears for their life a poke could be quite intimidating.
- We did have the URL to Brett’s site in there, but I was looking at it last night and didn’t feel right linking to it if he wasn’t ready yet * poke poke*.
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