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poke
noun- a wallet or purse US, 1859
- I was always as ready as they were, although sometimes I never had a blip in my poke. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 22, 1946
- When the cluck woke up, he frisked his pockets for his poke. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 268, 1951
- Had it in his pants pocket. I couldn’t find a poke. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 44, 1953
- Purse snatchers grabbed a poke and ran toward the dark beneath the trestle[.] — Chester Himes, A Rage in Harlem, p. 164, 1957
- Fat Girl returned to the room and picked up Bernie’s wallet. “Your poke, man.” — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 158, 1961
- I flushed them down the toilet, frisked Mario and lifted another $400 from his poke and added it to my pile. — Mickey Spillane, Me, Hood!, p. 41, 1963
- Where blood was shed for the sake of bread / And drunks rolled for their poke. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 80, 1976
- Phil reaching behind Bill, fingers feeling the inside breast pockets of the mark’s suit jacket or perhaps the overcoat pockets searching for the wallet–or poke, as Phil referred to it. — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 112, 1980
- money; a roll of money US, 1926
- The other boy he had could do the running and make some poke. — Hal Ellson, Duke, p. 65, 1949
- — Hy Lit, Hy Lit’s Unbelievable Dictionary of Hip Words for Groovy People, p. 30, 1968
- — Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang, p. 92, 1970
- Then the mark opens the wallet to find out that they switched the poke on him and he has a wallet full of cut paper. — Stephen J. Cannell, Big Con, p. 165, 1997
- the stomach US
- — John Gould, Maine Lingo, p. 213, 1975
- power, especially horsepower UK
- [W]ith all that poke under the bonnet[.] — R.T Bickers, The Hellions, 1965
- a punch; a hard hitting verbal thrust UK, 1788
Both uses derive from the conventional sense (a thrust, a push). - Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, hoping to overtake the Vermonter, took a poke at [Howard] Dean’s temperament and accused Fox News of conspiring against him in Thursday’s debate[.] — Seattle Times, 24 January 2003
- an inhalation of marijuana or opium smoke US, 1955
- Go ahead. Take a poke. It won’t hurt you. — Thurston Scott, Cure it with Honey, p. 60, 1951
- Then some lame was puffing on a joint one night, got next to a kitty and said she had to take a poke. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 26, 1975
- marijuana UK, 2001
From “pokeweed”, Phytolacca americana, a strong smelling shrub native to North America. - — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 288, 2003
- a woman sexually objectified UK, 1937
- a poor person who attempts through demeaning behaviour to be accepted by upper-class people BAHAMAS
- — John A. Holm, Dictionary of Bahamian English, p. 158, 1982
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