Crossword-Solution: POKE 4 letters, 196 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Poke n. A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (P.
decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget,
pigeon berry, pocan, and pokeweed. The root and berries have emetic and
purgative properties, and are used in medicine. The young shoots are
sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said
to be used in Europe to color wine.
Poke n. A bag; a sack; a pocket.
Poke n. A long, wide sleeve; -- called also poke sleeve.
Poke v. t. To thrust or push against or into with anything pointed;
hence, to stir up; to excite; as, to poke a fire.
Poke v. t. To thrust with the horns; to gore.
Poke v. t. To put a poke on; as, to poke an ox.
Poke v. i. To search; to feel one's way, as in the dark; to grope;
as, to poke about.
Poke n. The act of poking; a thrust; a jog; as, a poke in the ribs.
Poke n. A lazy person; a dawdler; also, a stupid or uninteresting
person.
Poke n. A contrivance to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking
through fences. It consists of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed
forward.

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We have 196 clues for the answer “POKE”

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"Don't ___ the bear" 1 answer
A bag or sack, as "a pig in a ___." 1 answer
A kind of bonnet. 1 answer
AMERICAN hellebore 1 answer
Annoy, as a sibling on a road trip 1 answer
Assault la Moe 1 answer
Assault a la Moe 1 answer
Bag or sack. 1 answer
Bag, in dialect 1 answer
Bonnet brim 1 answer
Check, as a cake for doneness, e.g. 1 answer
Contact on Facebook 1 answer
Contact, in a way, on Facebook 1 answer
Cowboy, informally 1 answer
Diced raw fish dish 1 answer
Dig in the ribs 1 answer
Dish of raw fish tossed in sauce 1 answer
Dish whose name means "to slice" in Hawaiian 1 answer
Elbow action 1 answer
Elbow in the ribs 1 answer
Elbow thrust 1 answer
Facebook attention getter 1 answer
Facebook interaction 1 answer
Facebook nudge 1 answer
Facebook user's "nudge" 1 answer
Figurative "jab" on Facebook 1 answer
Finger jab 1 answer
Forty-niner's gold-dust holder. 1 answer
Gentle physical reminder 1 answer
Give a pointer? 1 answer
Give the elbow 1 answer
Give the finger to? 1 answer
Hawaiian diced raw tuna entree 1 answer
Hawaiian dish of diced raw fish 1 answer
Hawaiian fish dish 1 answer
Hawaiian raw fish dish 1 answer
Hawaiian raw-ahi dish 1 answer
Hawaiian seafood salad 1 answer
Idiomatic pig locale 1 answer
Jab between the ribs, say 1 answer
Jab gently 1 answer
Jab in the ribs 1 answer
Jab playfully 1 answer
Jab with a pointer, say 1 answer
Jab with a stick 1 answer
Jab with one finger 1 answer
Jab; prod 1 answer
Kind of bonnet 1 answer
Laggard, informally 1 answer
Make Poppin' Fresh giggle 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with POKE (5)

This allowed one to `crank' through a lot of code, then slow down to single-step for a bit when you got near the code of interest, poke at some registers using the console typewriter, and then keep on cranking.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Bless you, child, when you set out to thread a needle don’t hold the thread still and fetch the needle up to it; hold the needle still and poke the thread at it; that’s the way a woman most always does, but a man always does t’other way.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
Congratulations! If computer hackers, those insidious little moles who secretively poke through computer systems uninvited and unchecked, are the real culprits as well placed NASA sources suggest, they need to be identified quickly, and be prosecuted to the fullest extent possible.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
Until then I just want you to poke around and see what there is, until you know the shelves so well you could put your hand on any given book in the dark.
The Haunted Bookshop Christopher Morley 2008
When ’a lived in that little small house by the pond, he used to have to leave open his chamber door every night at going to his bed, and let his feet poke out upon the landing.” “He’s dead and gone now, nevertheless, poor man, as we all shall,” observed Worm, to fill the pause which followed the conclusion of Robert Lickpan’s speech.
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1995

Quotes with POKE (3)

Unhappy memories are persistent. They're specific, and it's the details that refuse to leave us alone. Though a happy memory may stay with you just as long as one that makes you miserable, what you remember softens over time. What you recall is simply that you were happy, not necessarily the individual moments that brought about your joy. But the memory of something painful does just the opposite. It retains its original shape, all bony fingers and pointy elbows. Every time i…
Cameron Dokey Belle: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast
There aren't any syringes." Red Sox came over and held a sterile pack out. When she tried to take it from him, he kept a grip on the thing. "I know you'll use this wisely.""Wisely?" She snapped the syringe out of his hand. "No, I'm going to poke him in the eye with it. Because that's what they trained me to do in medical school.
J.R. Ward Lover Unbound
And it's Gryfindor in possession again, as Johnson takes the Quaffle — Flint alongside her — poke him in the eye, Angelina — it was a joke, professor, it was a joke...
J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 311 times in crossword archives (1948–2025).