poke out

verb4

1. •
   To be partly visible past an obstruction or obstructions.

   • Here’s the Queen, my dears, in her gilt coach, drawn by six horses. Do you see her sceptre poking out of the carriage window? She governs the nation with that. — 1886
2. •
   To emerge from behind, in, or under something.

   • As they gazed, a white face, wet with the sweat of fear, poked out and stared down upon them with eyes in which the late terror still lived. — 1893
3. •
   To cause (something) to protrude or emerge.

   • Ye see then we are but as snayles, and are chaunged incontinent. And is it meet that we shoulde poke out our hornes agaynst God? — 1574
4. •
   To remove (something) by poking (often creating a hole in the process).

   • Apollo then does shoot so right With shaft that’s sharp as well as bright, Hits Ephialtes in the eye; And Hercules that then stood by, Pokes out his other: farewel he. — 1665