poke

Plural: pokes

Noun

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
someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases
a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow)
(boxing) a blow with the fist
A prod, jab, or thrust.
A lazy person; a dawdler.
A stupid or uninteresting person.
An old, worn-out horse.
A device to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences, consisting of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.
The storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a program or to cheat at a video game.
A notification sent to get another user's attention on social media or an instant messenger.
A poke bonnet.
A hit, especially an extra base hit.
A sack or bag.
A long, wide sleeve.
An ice cream cone or a bag of chips
Pokeweed, and its berries.
Slices or cubes of raw fish or other raw seafood, mixed with sesame oil, seaweed, sea salt, herbs, spices, or other flavorful ingredients.

Verb

Verb Forms: poked, poking, pokes

To push or prod with a finger or pointed object.
poke or thrust abruptly
search or inquire in a meddlesome way
stir by poking
- "poke the embers in the fireplace"
hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
make a hole by poking
To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick.
To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning.
To rummage; to feel or grope around.
To modify the value stored in (a memory address).
To put a poke (device to prevent leaping or breaking fences) on (an animal).
To thrust at with the horns; to gore.
To notify (another user) of activity on social media or an instant messenger.
To thrust (something) in a particular direction such as the tongue.
To penetrate in sexual intercourse.

Examples

He would ’POKE’ at the Scrabble tiles, hoping a winning word would magically appear.
I poked about in the rubble, trying to find my lost keys.
to poke an ox

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English poken, perhaps from Middle Dutch poken or Middle Low German poken, both from Proto-West Germanic *pukōn or similar, which is itself of uncertain origin, but may be from an imitative Proto-Germanic root *puk-. Doublet of poach.

Synonyms

biff, carrier bag, clout, dawdler, dig, drone, garget, horn in, intrude, jab, jabbing, laggard, lagger, lick, nose, paper bag, Phytolacca americana, pigeon berry, poking, pound, prod, pry, punch, sack, scoke, slug, stab, thrust, thrusting, thump, trailer, Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with", Formal terms, Informal and slang terms, ball, bang, bauf, be with, bed, beep, boff, boink, bone, bonk, boom-boom, coit, coitize, dick, diddle, dig out, dight, do, doink, drill, eff, enjoy, expletive deleted, feague, feck, feel around, fill, forage, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, fumble, get into someone's pants, get over on, get up in, give someone one, give someone the time, glaum, go in unto, go to bed with, go with, grabble, grope, grubble, have, have one's way with, have one's wicked way with, hit, hump, jape, jump, jump someone's bones, knob, knock, knock off, know, know someone in the biblical sense, lay, lie by, lie with, love, love up, make, mount, nail, occupy, penetrate, plough, plug, poke, poke sleeve, pork, prig, pump, ream, rock, roger, root, run through, rut, sard, schlong, scramble, screw, season, seduce, see to, service, shaft, shag, shelve, slay, sleep with, slip it to, smash, smush, stallionize, swive, take, tap, the list at pokeweed, tup, wap

Scrabble Score: 10

poke: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
poke: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
poke: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

poke: valid Words With Friends Word