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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Small and remote and insignificant.
1 Reality: Your accommodation is too pokey to accommodate even a small, portable braai.
2 Yes, a few mostly in pokey places, yet they are useful.
3 There's a distinctly hokey pokey look to this photograph from 1988.
4 A kiwi, a silver fern, a scoop of hokey pokey ice-cream, Lion Brown.
5 How could you have lived in that pokey place so long?
6 Many houses have defunct dark pokey rooms which just end up as storage space.
7 And the table we get is in a pokey corner beside a fire extinguisher.
8 But the 55sq m flat felt more pokey than cosy.
9 Take me to the pokey and throw away the key.
10 What a mean, pokey , ugly little dirty hovel it was!
11 This is certainly the case for the Lakeland 145's laundry, which is anything but pokey .
12 Today we answered a question about hokey pokey ice cream and Richard's pondering about petrol.
13 From their pokey back street base they hope, to combat oppression, terrorism and corruption worldwide.
14 I don't mean to say we're pokey back home.
15 She hated this pokey place, and everyone in it.
16 He had gone to the pokey for a while.
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