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Definition of Poke at

1. Verb. To push against gently. "She nudged my elbow when she saw her friend enter the restaurant"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Poke At

Literary usage of Poke at

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1857)
"Then the other bowler, with a sad countenance, threw the bail at the other gloomy batsman, who made another dispirited poke at it with his pudding-stick ..."

2. Thesaurus of English words and phrases by Peter Mark Roget, Samuel Romilly Roget (1879)
"... out- work ; barb-acan, -ican ; redoubt ; fort-elage, -alice ; lines. strike at, poke at, thrust at ; aim -, deal- a blow at; give -, fetch- one a -blow, ..."

3. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1912)
"Crofton hurled poke at left guard, and piled him through for four yards. Then came a mix-up in the signals in which Smith's substitute hit Hawthorne's line ..."

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