Synonym: goad, jab, push, ram, shove, spur, thrust. Similar words: bespoke, spokesman, joke, stroke, broker, invoke, provoke. Meaning: [pəʊk] n. 1. tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous 2. someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind 3. a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases 4. a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow) 5. (boxing) a blow with the fist. v. 1. poke or thrust abruptly 2. search or inquire in a meddlesome way 3. stir by poking 4. hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument 5. make a hole by poking.
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91. Never poke your head out of a train window.
92. He came to Lant Street about once a year, bringing poke to Mr Ibbs, and picking up bad coin, cautions, and tips.
93. I want to see the tennis racket before I agree to the price. I don't want to buy a pig in a poke.
94. A Nazis poke to peculiarity this bargain to their prerogative along with inside recklessness, Toulon commits self-murder .
95. Roy:Should I speed the process to its logical conclusion and poke out my own eardrums now?
96. The Non Destructive Testing ( NDT ) system is primarily a poke yoke device for the induction hardening process.
97. What's more, even within the areas of the WAIS that lie below sea level, there are localized spots that poke above it, and these too would be relatively safe.
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98. When people poke fun at me for my big nose, I just laugh.
99. It may be carried on the boots and gear of poke about in caves.
100. He spent the second half of his career trying to poke holes in the theory and to subsume it in a unified theory that would restore certainty and determinism to physics.
101. Dongpo and Fo Yin were good friends, and they liked to poke fun at each other.
102. She loves to poke her nose into everyone's business. She also likes to be a tattletale, and Albert listens to most of what she says.
103. You like to poke your nose into other people's business.
104. Some local favorites are Lau Lau (pork chicken or vegetables steamed in a pouch of ti leaves), Lomi Salmon, Butterfish, Poke (a raw ahi tuna salad) and Poi (a dish made with mashed taro).
105. If you're just going to poke at your food, we might as well go.
106. All his business partners poke fun of him behind his back.
107. To poke prod , or pinch ( a person ) between or on the buttocks.
108. I don't want to poke my nose into your affairs.
109. We never thought she would poke her nose into this.
110. He did not allow his neighbours to poke into his garden.
111. Inca mummy bundles poke up from the ground at the newly discovered historic cemetery.
112. Two visitors at a time can poke their heads into his inflatable textile construction, sharing the air they breathe in the enclosed pod-like space.
113. I want to see the notebook before I agree to the price. I don't want to buy a pig in a poke.
114. You can poke at it with a screwdriver or a piece of wire.
115. Don't poke and pry about into what other people prefer to keep hidden.
116. A careful person will not buy a pig in a poke.
117. I have also taken the opportunity to poke fun at my reactions.
118. Don't rub, poke, or otherwise fiddle with the skin there.
119. If she wins, she gets to go free, but if she loses, he'll poke out her eye.
120. Poke two holes in the sack so you can see through it.