poke

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick.

   • Ward showed good pace to beat the advancing Reina to the ball and poke a low finish into the corner.
2. 2

   To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning.

3. 3

   To rummage

   To rummage; to feel or grope around.

   • I poked about in the rubble, trying to find my lost keys.
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   1. 4

      To modify the value stored in (a memory address).

      • The 200 UDGs may be used either by paging between 10 sets of 20 UDGs or, alternatively, by displaying 96 different characters by poking the system variable CHARS with 256 less than the starting address of your graphics.
      • If you try to poke a value outside this range into a byte, Basic will beep you with an ILLEGAL QUANTITY error.
   2. 5

      To put a poke (device to prevent leaping or breaking fences) on (an animal).

      • to poke an ox
   3. 6

      To thrust at with the horns

      To thrust at with the horns; to gore.

   4. 7

      To notify (another user) of activity on social media or an instant messenger.

      • Indeed, when we poke users who normally do not have access to our profiles, they will be able to temporarily see our Basic Info, Work Info, and Education Info.
   5. 8

      To thrust (something) in a particular direction such as the tongue.

   6. 9

      To penetrate in sexual intercourse.

      • Maj. Cloutier commented to Lt. Clemm, "You know what they say about a girl who smokes: If she smokes, she pokes."
      • He chewed her nipples and clitoris until they bled, and poked her until she could hardly walk. Grandpa never got enough sex […]
      • No big deal. I poked Ana a bunch of times.
   7. 10

      A prod, jab, or thrust.

   8. 11

      A lazy person

      A lazy person; a dawdler.

      • The slowness of this stupid poke tortures me to death.
      • To the uninitiated he looked like a slow old poke; but his string would lengthen out in a most mysterious way , and it was the height of our ambition to set as much and as clean a proof as old John.
      • I never saw such an old poke. You come up here and expect me to do some things for you, and then you stand around as though you were made of bone!
   9. 12

      A stupid or uninteresting person.

      • I think you are all reasonably well aware that the common picture of the surveying and mapping profession is proabably best exemplified at the present time by the old poke who is out with a rickety old transit, wearing old ragged clothes.
   10. 13

       An old, worn-out horse.

       • Probably summer residents, and this old poke won't move out of a walk, and I've no whip.
       • Yes, mother, but my horse is such an old poke I was nowhere in the race.
   11. 14

       A device to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences, consisting of a…

       A device to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences, consisting of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.

       • This yoke or poke will prevent any horse from scaling a fence, if well made.
   12. 15

       The storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a…

       The storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a program or to cheat at a video game.

       • […] everywhere you see listings festooned with Goto statements and peppered with peeks and pokes.
       • One of the major limitations is that the Commodore 64 does not easily support auto-repeat (it must be turned on by a poke instruction from BASIC).
       • Perhaps all those super hackers who so regularly produce infinite lives etc. could produce pokes to be used by 128K users.
   13. 16

       A notification sent to get another user's attention on social media or an instant…

       A notification sent to get another user's attention on social media or an instant messenger.

       • It could be described as a poke, but not a friendly one. For those who have not yet succumbed to Facebook, the latest craze on the internet, a ‘poke’ is an electronic greeting sent, for example, to an old friend from university.
   14. 17

       A poke bonnet.

       • Well then, I declare, I'd rather see Miss Lawton in that old poke – old as it is! –than in the finest new bonnet the Squire's lady ever wore.
   15. 18

       A hit, especially an extra base hit.

   16. 19

       A sack or bag, especially a paper bag.

       • And then he drew a dial from his poke, And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, ‘It is ten o'clock[…]’
       • When the Pig is proffered, hold vp the poke.
       • And suddainly vntyes the Poke, Which out of it sent such a smoke, As ready was them all to choke, So greeuous was the pother […]
   17. 20

       A long, wide sleeve.

   18. 21

       An ice cream cone or a bag of chips

   19. 22

       Pokeweed, and its berries.

       • [W]hen rodents were scarce they ate chestnuts and rhubarb and poke and other wild food[.]
   20. 23

       Slices or cubes of raw fish or other raw seafood, mixed with sesame oil, seaweed, sea…

       Slices or cubes of raw fish or other raw seafood, mixed with sesame oil, seaweed, sea salt, herbs, spices, or other flavorful ingredients.

   21. 24

       A surname.

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