Crossword-Solution: POKING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Poking | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Poke |
| Poking | a. | Drudging; servile. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “POKING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Contacting on Facebook, in a way | 1 answer |
| Contacting via Facebook, in a way | 1 answer |
| Jabbing rudely | 1 answer |
| Primitive means of investigation | 1 answer |
| Attention-getting act | 2 answers |
| Sticking (out) | 5 answers |
| Piercing | 42 answers |
| Dawdling | 69 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with POKING (5)
The greater number carried in their hands ground-ash saplings, using them partly as walking-sticks and partly for poking up pigs, sheep, neighbours with their backs turned, and restful things in general, which seemed to require such treatment in the course of their peregrinations.
From poking around in the databases provided one might decide that a document named NETINFO:NUG.DOC (The Users Guide to the ARPAnet) would be worth having.
They went about poking sticks into the sand, and when they found a soft place they went down on their knees and dug with their hands.
His hair will not bristle, therefore, at the stories which—in times when chimney-corners had benches in them, where old people sat poking into the ashes of the past, and raking out traditions like live coals—used to be told about this very room of his ancestral house.
Don't you go around poking into other computers, too? SURE So why not someone else? THEY DIDN'T GET INTO BIG TROUBLE FROM REPO MAN'S ARTICLE? "He knows who you are?" Tyrone asked.
Quotes with POKING (3)
Are you just gonna stare at Jack or are we gonna go?" Milo asked, poking his head into the bedroom.
What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star? That, by the way, is a phrase of Julian's. I remember it from a lecture of his on the Iliad, when Patroklos appears to Achilles in a dream. There is a very moving passage where Achilles overjoyed at the sight of the apparition — tries to throw his arms around the ghost of his old friend, and it vanishes. The dead appear to us in dreams, said Julian, because that's the only way they can make us se…
As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You feel like you’re a kid again, poking around in your parents’ closet, only this time there’s no chance of getting in trouble, so you don’t have to be so sure that everything gets put back exactly where it was before you did your poking around. Still, you hope to find something, or maybe you fear finding something, that will completely …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1974–2021).