pokey
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Mike is Westish’s biggest booster—he coined the school motto, “We Are One”—so it’s a problem that Pella feels antsy at the thought of settling permanently in this pokey college town.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Give me your losers and laggards, your pokey puppies who limbo right under rock-bottom expectations and then have to go home and lie down.
From New York Times ● May 18, 2024
She’s a big personality, chatty, colorfully dressed, a ray of sunshine, easily distracted, insanely friendly; she offers a killer a cookie even as he’s being packed off to the pokey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
Family and adult-only fun include roller disco night and open skate hours with the hokey pokey, limbo and partner skate events.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2023
The banker throws the poor old widder in the pokey.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
II: Body Language In 17th century England, the reigning Stuarts took increasingly to popping their political foes into the Tower of London and other pokeys, without bothering much with prosecutions or convictions.
From Time Magazine Archive
The peaked shoes, chained to the knee, were not more ridiculous than the deep, wide sleeves commonly called pokeys, which were shaped like a bagpipe and were worn by all classes.
From The Evolution of Fashion by Florence Mary Gardiner
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