POKE

Poke

Poke is a raw salad served as an appetizer in Hawaiian cuisine. Pokē is the Hawaiian verb for "section" or "to slice or cut".

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poke

Noun

  1. A lazy person; a dawdler.
  2. A stupid or uninteresting person.
  3. A device to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences, consisting of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.
  4. The storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a program or to cheat at a video game.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A sack or bag.
  2. A long, wide sleeve; a poke sleeve.
  3. An ice cream cone.

Noun (etymology 3)

  1. Pokeweed.

Verb

  1. To prod or jab with a pointed object such as a finger or a stick.
  2. To poke a fire to remove ash or promote burning.
  3. To rummage as in to poke about in.
  4. To modify the value stored in (a memory address).
  5. To put a poke on.
    to poke an ox
  6. To thrust with the horns; to gore.


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