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Pokey   /pˈoʊki/   Listen
Pokey

noun
1.
A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence).  Synonyms: clink, gaol, jail, jailhouse, poky, slammer.






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"Pokey" Quotes from Famous Books



... hokey pokey!" spluttered Dorothy, and with a deep sigh of delight she took a large bite of the pink ice cream. How cool it felt on her dry throat! She opened her mouth for a second taste, yawned terrifically, and fell with a thud ...
— The Royal Book of Oz • L. Frank Baum

... old and die in places like this," she continued passionately; "I'll grow old and die in pokey, little schools, and wear prim calico dresses, with a remade old white mull for commencements. I'll never hear anything but twice two, and Persia is bounded on the north by,—with all the world beyond, ...
— Mountain Blood - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer

... to enjoy discussing this one's dress and that one's bonnet almost as much as her cousins did, and her younger cousin said, "You will soon wear off all your country rust, Kate. How could you have lived in that pokey place so long?" ...
— Kate's Ordeal • Emma Leslie



Words linked to "Pokey" :   hoosegow, provincial, house of correction, slow, gaol, lockup, jerkwater, poke, holding cell, dilatory, correctional institution, hoosgow, workhouse, bastille



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