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Meanings of poking in English

Portuguese
injecção
Catalan
empenta
Spanish
amenazador

A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow)

        injecção
        Usage of poking in English
        1
        I'd only been poking at it for 15 minutes when Molyneux called.
        Wired
        2
        I yelled, dropping the lamp and poking him roughly in the ribs.
        The White Waterfall
        3
        CJ had been poking around town, asking questions that shouldn't be asked.
        Hunter's moon: a novel
        4
        Maybe Emma was asking too many questions, poking around too many places.
        The Lying Game
        5
        I would simply have to be very careful in my poking about.
        My Name is Legion
        6
        First, it took thirty minutes of Alliana's poking to wake it up.
        The spirit thief
        7
        An old steer was poking his head in at the kitchen window.
        Judith of the Godless Valley
        8
        Great humble-bees haunted the walls, and were poking about in them constantly.
        Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood
        9
        She'd grown up poking into every building and warehouse in the city.
        Night of Knives
        10
        Five months after it happened, and you're still poking around in it.
        The big bite
        11
        There was indeed a small patch of earth poking through the cement.
        Artemis Fowl
        12
        Alec was enjoying the humour of poking up the giant of conventionality.
        What Necessity Knows
        13
        Last month it released a TV advert poking fun at the incident.
        News.com.au
        14
        He was poking eagerly in a pile of charred paper and linen.
        The Dream Doctor
        15
        Saturday Night Live wasted no time in poking fun at Kanye West.
        Ebony
        16
        Especially when you're going to go poking around in somebody's private office.
        Death Mask
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        Translations for poking
        Portuguese
        injecção
        Poking through the time
        Poking across language varieties
        United States of America
        Common
        United Kingdom
        Common
        Ireland
        Less common