poke

poke
v
1. push, butt, jab, dig, nudge, jog, punch; thrust, force, drive, stir, impel, goad, prod; jolt, jostle, elbow, shove.
2.Usu. poke out
extend, project, protrude, overhang, beetle; stick out, shoot out, hang out.
3.Usu. poke into
intrude, meddle, Inf. kibbitz, Inf. butt in, Inf. horn in, stick one's nose where it doesn't belong; muscle in, worm in, interlope.
4.Usu. poke about or around
ransack, rummage, forage, rake, scour; look around, sift through; examine, investigate.
5.Usu. poke along
dawdle, dally, loiter, loll, Inf. lallygag, lag behind, take one's time or one's own sweet time; idle, loaf, potter, fiddle, piddle, dillydally, Inf. diddle; meander, saunter, shuffle, roam aimlessly; window-shop.
6. poke fun at
mock, ridicule, jeer, make fun of, fleer, guy; tease, kid, rib, rally, chaff, taunt, twit, needle, make sport of, Inf. roast; deride, flout, put down, insult, run down, abuse, disdain.
n
7. thrust, dig, push, shove, jab, nudge, jog, punch, jolt; finger in the ribs.
8.Informal. slowpoke, snail, tortoise; dawdler, laggard, lingerer, loiterer; lazybones, slugabed; procras-tinator, dillydallier.

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