[
UK
/pˈəʊki/
]
[ US /ˈpoʊki/ ]
[ US /ˈpoʊki/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
small and remote and insignificant
passed a series of poky little one-horse towns
a jerkwater college - wasting time
NOUN
- a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
How To Use pokey In A Sentence
- Case dismissed, and the prosecutor gets to spend the night in the pokey for charging against the film.
- We don't need a new law; we need to find the executives who did this and throw them in the pokey for a long time.
- I dropped back down on my bed and patted down some pokey ends of loose fluff and feather down idly, and heard the door open.
- If you have an older PC, then a slower processor and pokey system components may cause a bottleneck, and you won't get the graphics performance for which you overpaid.
- He limps around, bouncing, kicking, giving it a bit of a hokey-pokey shake here and there. Angry Young Man
- They sell hokey-pokey, either plain or covered in chocolate.
- We learn the hokey pokey when we're kids and as we become adults, we learn the latest crazes.
- Such is life in the big house, the joint, or the pokey.
- Let's invite our friends to a barbie, drink beer, eat hokey-pokey and pavlova, or have a game of rugby on the beach in our swannies and jandals.
- Having worked to learn fluent French - surely passing ones time in the pokey by learning a second language and earning a BA counts as some form of rehabilitation?
