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poke
has definitions from the fields of sport,boxing,botany
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[ verb ] poke or thrust abruptly
Examples "he jabbed his finger into her ribs" Used in print (John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)When he had left , I could never remember whether he had poked them in their middles , laughingly , with a thick index_finger or whether he was merely so much the sort of person who did this that one assumed the action , not bothering to look . One of the children maneuvered out of range of the poking index_finger . |
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[ verb ] search or inquire in a meddlesome way
Examples "This guy is always nosing around the office" Used in print (John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)If he pokes his nose in here I 'll slug him '' . (W. H. Gass, "The Pedersen Kid," in The...)Ma poked her toe in the kid 's clothes . |
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[ noun ] (botany) 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
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[ noun ] a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases
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[ noun ] (boxing) a blow with the fist
Examples "I gave him a clout on his nose" Related terms blow rabbit_punch jab haymaker sucker_punch hook counterpunch boxing punch clout |
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