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poking

/pohk/US // poʊk //UK // (pəʊk) //

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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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.
v.无主动词 verb
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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.
n.名词 noun
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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!