poke

It has perhaps been a stick poked at City in previous seasons - that they don't have the bite or ruthlessness of six-time successive champions Chelsea.

The chimp took a twig, bent and stripped it of its leaves, then he poked it into a termite's nest.

He was sitting beside a mound of red earth, carefully pushing a blade of grass into a hole, then withdrawing it and poking it into his mouth.

Inevitably, there’s the question: To what end all this poking of thumbs in his fellow Democrats’ eyes?

She’s also one of the first to directly poke at Alex’s masculine identity.