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Adjective(1) (2) wasting time(3) small and remote and insignificant
Noun(1) (2) a slang term for jail

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(1) 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?(2) Hurry up or I'll ask the sheriff to take you guys to the pokey .(3) 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.(4) Such is life in the big house, the joint, or the pokey .(5) As she approaches the prospect of spending a bit of time in the federal pokey for her conviction in that insider stock-dumping scheme, she already has a plan to lighten her jail term.(6) No one of any significance has spent any time in the pokey .(7) He's resolute about going to the pokey or the grave fighting for the little people.(8) In Armstrong's case, his identity thief plead guilty to a laundry list of charges and is slated to spend just five years in the pokey .(9) 25 years in the pokey(10) Determined not to be u2018treated like a piece of bookstore trade,u2019 one of these drama boys almost turns a semi-innocent trip to the sauna into in a trip to the pokey for one of them.(11) We reflect on my impending visit to the pokey over a fry-up.(12) But let a bad word creep into a school principal's vocabulary, and he'll go straight to the pokey .(13) 25 years in the pokey(14) And I didn't want to go to the pokey for - well, never you mind what I could go to the pokey for.(15) Check your local obscenity ordinances before you do this one or you could land up in the pokey .(16) By convention's end, about 1,800 protesters had passed through the temporary pokey at Pier 57.
Related Words
(1) poky
Synonyms
Noun
1. jail
2. slammer
3. gaol
4. jailhouse
5. clink
6. poky


Adjective
7. one-horse
8. jerkwater
9. poky


📺 Word Example from TV Shows

The hokey pokey
is a young man's game.

The hokey POKEY is a young man's game.

The Big Bang Theory Season 5, Episode 3


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