poke

noun16

1. •
   A prod, jab, or thrust.
2. •
   Slices or cubes of raw fish or other raw seafood, mixed with sesame oil, seaweed, sea salt, herbs, spices, or other flavorful ingredients.
3. •
   (informal) A notification sent to get another user's attention on social media or an instant messenger.
4. •
   (Southern-US, Appalachia) A sack or bag, especially a paper bag.

   • And then he drew a dial from his poke, And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, ‘It is ten o'clock[…]’ — 1598
5. •
   (Scotland, Northern-Ireland) A bag of chips.
6. •
   (Scotland, Northern-Ireland) An ice cream cone.
7. •
   (dialect) Pokeweed, and its berries.

   • [W]hen rodents were scarce they ate chestnuts and rhubarb and poke and other wild food[.] — 1997
8. •
   A poke bonnet.

   • Well then, I declare, I'd rather see Miss Lawton in that old poke – old as it is! –than in the finest new bonnet the Squire's lady ever wore. — 1857
9. •
   (slang) A hit, especially an extra base hit.
10. •
    (old-fashioned) The storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a program or to cheat at a video game.

    • […] everywhere you see listings festooned with Goto statements and peppered with peeks and pokes. — 1984
11. •
    (US, slang) A lazy person; a dawdler.

    • The slowness of this stupid poke tortures me to death. — 1865
12. •
    (US, slang) A stupid or uninteresting person.
13. •
    An old, worn-out horse.

    • Probably summer residents, and this old poke won't move out of a walk, and I've no whip. — 1889
14. •
    A long, wide sleeve.
15. •
    (US) A device to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences, consisting of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.

    • This yoke or poke will prevent any horse from scaling a fence, if well made. — 1883
16. •
    Ellipsis of poké salad.

verb9

1. •
   To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick.

   • Ward showed good pace to beat the advancing Reina to the ball and poke a low finish into the corner. — 2010
2. •
   To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning.
3. •
   To thrust at with the horns; to gore.
4. •
   To rummage; to feel or grope around.

   • I poked about in the rubble, trying to find my lost keys.
5. •
   To thrust (something) in a particular direction such as the tongue.
6. •
   (informal) To notify (another user) of activity on social media or an instant messenger.

   • Indeed, when we poke users who normally do not have access to our profiles, they will be able to temporarily see our Basic Info, Work Info, and Education Info. — 2009
7. •
   (slang, vulgar) To penetrate in sexual intercourse.

   • He chewed her nipples and clitoris until they bled, and poked her until she could hardly walk. Grandpa never got enough sex […] — 2000
8. •
   (old-fashioned) To modify the value stored in (a memory address).

   • If you try to poke a value outside this range into a byte, Basic will beep you with an ILLEGAL QUANTITY error. — 1985
9. •
   To put a poke (device to prevent leaping or breaking fences) on (an animal).

noun1

1. •
   (informal) A Pokémon.

   • A lot of Japanese Pokemon CCG cards--mostly Fire Pokes, including Charmander and Charmeleon. — 1999