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pokey

/poh-kee/US // ˈpoʊ ki //

捣蛋鬼,小鬼,捣乱者,捣乱

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural pok·eys.Slang.

    • : Usually the pokey . a jail: They put him in the pokey for carrying a concealed weapon.

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Examples

  • By now, everyone knows how to do the Republican presidential hokey pokey: You put your right foot in.

  • Instead of pokey World War II–era planes, the communists deployed MIG fighters that were a match for the best American planes.

  • She jumped up and down and did the hokey pokey and shouted to the rooftops from it.

  • If Joey got a year in the pokey, then I hope Bernard L. Madoff lives as long as Methuselah and spends all 969 years behind bars.

  • I'm so glad the old pokey bonnets are gone but o' fashion—the round ones are much more becoming to young people.

  • She must be a stiff, pokey sort of a person, and I am sure it will be pleasanter without her.

  • I've got a hunch that if you don't, we go to the pokey and Uncle Peter will be left free to blow up everybody in town.

  • I see myself living in a shabby house in a horrid pokey street, with two dirty little maids, and I could almost scream.

  • Here is the poorer Italian colony; organ-grinders, ice-cream-barrow-men, "hokey-pokey" sellers, and their like.