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Meanings of pokey in English

Portuguese
cadeia
Catalan
calabós
Spanish
cárcel

A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)

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cadeia

Wasting time.

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Small and remote and insignificant.

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Examples for "one-horse"
Examples for "one-horse"
1
The second cab followed the one-horse coupe in which Muller was seated.
The Case of the Pocket Diary Found in the Snow
2
Living in a one-horse town is great, if you own the horse.
Wired
3
Just another one-horse town where they roll up the sidewalks at nine.
Salem’s Lot
4
On Finchley Common the traveller met a clergyman driving a one-horse chaise.
A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals
5
On Monday we packed a one-horse van with what we deemed essential.
They and I
1
I wondered why a sexy high-top like you would work this jerkwater!
Midnight at the well of souls
2
Not Moe or anybody else in this jerkwater town.
One night stands & lost weekends
3
Somebody had found the damned thing, and now they knew they had me pinned down in this jerkwater town.
Man on the run
4
He'd make more dough if he owned the local garage and dealer franchise for one of the automobile companies in some jerkwater town.
The Common Man
5
Compared to this Vegas was nothing more than its origin: a small jerkwater nothing of a place hunkering at the edge of the desert.
A quiet vendetta
Usage of pokey in English
1
Reality: Your accommodation is too pokey to accommodate even a small, portable braai.
The South African
2
Yes, a few mostly in pokey places, yet they are useful.
London's Underworld
3
There's a distinctly hokey pokey look to this photograph from 1988.
The Irish Times
4
A kiwi, a silver fern, a scoop of hokey pokey ice-cream, Lion Brown.
Radio NZ
5
How could you have lived in that pokey place so long?
Kate's Ordeal
6
Many houses have defunct dark pokey rooms which just end up as storage space.
The Irish Times
7
And the table we get is in a pokey corner beside a fire extinguisher.
The Irish Times
8
But the 55sq m flat felt more pokey than cosy.
The Irish Times
9
Take me to the pokey and throw away the key.
Side Jobs
10
What a mean, pokey, ugly little dirty hovel it was!
Waysiders, Stories of Connacht
11
This is certainly the case for the Lakeland 145's laundry, which is anything but pokey.
News.com.au
12
Today we answered a question about hokey pokey ice cream and Richard's pondering about petrol.
Radio NZ
13
From their pokey back street base they hope, to combat oppression, terrorism and corruption worldwide.
The Irish Times
14
I don't mean to say we're pokey back home.
Immortality Inc.
15
She hated this pokey place, and everyone in it.
Flaming June
16
He had gone to the pokey for a while.
Rogues
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Pokey through the time