pokey
Usually the pokey . a jail: They put him in the pokey for carrying a concealed weapon.
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Rat catchers and builders aside, BP has a very different tone to Windsor as huge sections of it are given over to a veritable warren of offices and pokey shared flats in which dozens of royal staffers live and work.
Will the Queen Ever Live at Buckingham Palace Again? | Clive Irving, Tom Sykes | November 16, 2021 | The Daily BeastBy now, everyone knows how to do the Republican presidential hokey pokey: You put your right foot in.
Instead of pokey World War II–era planes, the communists deployed MIG fighters that were a match for the best American planes.
Soviet-Era Secret Leakers Were Way Worse Than Snowden | Steve Usdin | August 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTShe jumped up and down and did the hokey pokey and shouted to the rooftops from it.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s Tearful Last ‘The View,’ and Why We’ll Miss Her | Kevin Fallon | July 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIf Joey got a year in the pokey, then I hope Bernard L. Madoff lives as long as Methuselah and spends all 969 years behind bars.
I'm so glad the old pokey bonnets are gone but o' fashion—the round ones are much more becoming to young people.
She must be a stiff, pokey sort of a person, and I am sure it will be pleasanter without her.
And So They Were Married | Florence Morse KingsleyI've got a hunch that if you don't, we go to the pokey and Uncle Peter will be left free to blow up everybody in town.
"And That's How It Was, Officer" | Ralph SholtoI see myself living in a shabby house in a horrid pokey street, with two dirty little maids, and I could almost scream.
The Bishop's Apron | W. Somerset MaughamHere is the poorer Italian colony; organ-grinders, ice-cream-barrow-men, "hokey-pokey" sellers, and their like.
Highways and Byways in London | Mrs. E. T. Cook.
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