poking
戳刺,戳戳戳,戳戳,戳
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Definitions
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poked, pok·ing.
- : to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- : to make by or as by prodding or pushing.
- : to thrust or push: She poked her head out of the window.
- : to force, drive, or stir by or as by pushing or thrusting: He poked the fire up.
- : to thrust obtrusively: The prosecutor kept poking his finger at the defendant.
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poked, pok·ing.
- : to make a pushing or thrusting movement with the finger, a stick, etc.
- : to extend or project: His handkerchief is poking out of his back pocket.
- : to thrust oneself obtrusively: to poke into something that is not one's affair.
- : to search curiously; pry.
- : to go or proceed in a slow or aimless way.
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- : a thrust or push.
- : Informal. a slow or dawdling person; slowpoke.
Phrases
- poke around
- poke fun at
- poke one's nose into
- make fun of (poke fun at)
- pig in a poke
- take a poke at
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
But, as the people of Irving are now discovering, all of this poking and prodding is not without potential consequences.
Poking out of the shiny gold pages is a “distinctive silk marker”—also gold—which “complements the color of the leather.”
The painting is of a human heart set inside a wind-up music box that has a metal rod poking out of the pulmonary artery.
The modest eating area has more than a dozen tables, each punctuated by a small porcelain vase with a plastic flower poking out.
“The One With the Giant Poking Device” Ugly Naked Guy was a brilliant running joke on Friends.
Mademoiselle was poking at a rusty stove that smoked a little and warmed the room indifferently.
“Yes—tea,” answered the traveller with the keen grey eyes, turning, and poking the fire with the heel of his boot.
Had the automatic snout poking through the steel grille of the rear of the cage.
She doesn't hold with Lords poking their noses into people's kitchens, anyway.
He was plugging the hole himself with a mixture of butter and cow dung which he was poking in with a stick!