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List of meaning for pokey

jail, jailhouse, gaol, clink, slammer, poky, pokey(adj)

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)

dilatory, laggard, poky, pokey(adj)

wasting time

jerkwater, one-horse, pokey, poky(adj)

small and remote and insignificant

"a jerkwater college"; "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns"

a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody

joked about the time he passed out on the street and woke up in the pokey

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