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Definition of pokey in English: pokeynoun ˈpəʊkiˈpoʊki usually the pokeyNorth American informal Prison. 〈非正式，主北美〉监狱，牢房 Example sentencesExamples - By convention's end, about 1,800 protesters had passed through the temporary pokey at Pier 57.
- Hurry up or I'll ask the sheriff to take you guys to the pokey.
- He's resolute about going to the pokey or the grave fighting for the little people.
- 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.
- And I didn't want to go to the pokey for - well, never you mind what I could go to the pokey for.
- We reflect on my impending visit to the pokey over a fry-up.
- I could have ended up in the pokey for questioning.
- 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.
- No, there is no law that will send you to the pokey if you break this guideline however, this is a rule that most follow and is a recommended guideline so you don't appear too pushy.
- But let a bad word creep into a school principal's vocabulary, and he'll go straight to the pokey.
- Case dismissed, and the prosecutor gets to spend the night in the pokey for charging against the film.
- 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?
- Check your local obscenity ordinances before you do this one or you could land up in the pokey.
- 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.
- No one of any significance has spent any time in the pokey.
- Once free they did what escaped prisoners do: Swiped a pickup truck, cavorted on the outside for a while, then got hauled back into the pokey.
- It seemed a laughable charge, but the judge was upset, saying Emery was arrogant and flouting the law - which he clearly was - and gave him 92 days in the pokey.
- Such is life in the big house, the joint, or the pokey.
- The province of Saskatchewan has in its code of laws no recourse for punishment of non-payment of fines other than to toss the offender into the pokey.
- Determined not to be ‘treated like a piece of bookstore trade,’ 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.
OriginEarly 20th century: alteration of pogey (an early sense being 'hostel for the needy'), perhaps influenced by poky. Rhymeschokey, croaky, folkie, folky, hokey, hokey-cokey, hoki, jokey, karaoke, Loki, okey-dokey, Okie, poky, smoky, trochee Definition of pokey in US English: pokeynounˈpōkēˈpoʊki usually the pokeyNorth American informal Prison. 〈非正式，主北美〉监狱，牢房 Example sentencesExamples - Check your local obscenity ordinances before you do this one or you could land up in the pokey.
- But let a bad word creep into a school principal's vocabulary, and he'll go straight to the pokey.
- Such is life in the big house, the joint, or the pokey.
- We reflect on my impending visit to the pokey over a fry-up.
- Determined not to be ‘treated like a piece of bookstore trade,’ 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.
- No, there is no law that will send you to the pokey if you break this guideline however, this is a rule that most follow and is a recommended guideline so you don't appear too pushy.
- Once free they did what escaped prisoners do: Swiped a pickup truck, cavorted on the outside for a while, then got hauled back into the pokey.
- No one of any significance has spent any time in the pokey.
- Case dismissed, and the prosecutor gets to spend the night in the pokey for charging against the film.
- 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.
- It seemed a laughable charge, but the judge was upset, saying Emery was arrogant and flouting the law - which he clearly was - and gave him 92 days in the pokey.
- By convention's end, about 1,800 protesters had passed through the temporary pokey at Pier 57.
- And I didn't want to go to the pokey for - well, never you mind what I could go to the pokey for.
- Hurry up or I'll ask the sheriff to take you guys to the pokey.
- The province of Saskatchewan has in its code of laws no recourse for punishment of non-payment of fines other than to toss the offender into the pokey.
- 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.
- 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.
- He's resolute about going to the pokey or the grave fighting for the little people.
- 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?
- I could have ended up in the pokey for questioning.
OriginEarly 20th century: alteration of pogey (an early sense being ‘hostel for the needy’), perhaps influenced by poky. |