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pokey
noun
a jail US, 1919- I’m gonna do everything in my power to fix it up so he’ll think heroin’s a new dance when he gets out of the pokey. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 122, 1960
- If it weren’t for him I probably would have been thrown in a military pokey for three or six months[.] — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 214, 1961
- The cop on the bet warns me that some of them are undesirables, that he’s noted a few coming in who had been in the pokey on morals charges. — Antony James, America’s Homosexual Underground, p. 104, 1965
- But she knew she’d wind up in the pokey[.] — Chester Himes, Come Back Charleston Blue, p. 109, 1966
- As I stood on the side of the road my thoughts centered around the prospect of “Pokey"–where a state trooper had once threatened to put me when he caught me hitching at 3 a.m. — James Simon Kunen, The Strawberry Statement, p. 80, 1968
- They grab some fat cat who identifies himself as a lawyer and go off to the local pokey to bail out fellow Digger Peter Berg. — Abbie Hoffman, Revolution for the Hell of It, p. 34, 1968
- Which is not what I would call a lot of fun, standing there and letting the judge chew you out, but easier to bear than a short stretch in the pokey. — George V. Higgins, Penance for Jerry Kennedy, p. 189, 1985
- It was nothing to throw a suspect in the pokey and leave him there[.] — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, p. 97, 2002
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