pokey
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Give me your losers and laggards, your pokey puppies who limbo right under rock-bottom expectations and then have to go home and lie down.
From New York Times ● May 18, 2024
She’s a big personality, chatty, colorfully dressed, a ray of sunshine, easily distracted, insanely friendly; she offers a killer a cookie even as he’s being packed off to the pokey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
Family and adult-only fun include roller disco night and open skate hours with the hokey pokey, limbo and partner skate events.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2023
While Proud Boys yelled and shoved outside the entrance, the children inside Loyalty Bookstores laughed, did the hokey pokey and danced as drag queen Charlemagne Chateau, dressed as a princess, read stories, they said.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2023
So they went along in their pokey fashion, the weirdly shaped Gremlin making rolling stops at traffic signs and the Eldorado, a little bit later, doing the same.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
II: Body Language In 17th century England, the reigning Stuarts took increasingly to popping their political foes into the Tower of London and other pokeys, without bothering much with prosecutions or convictions.
From Time Magazine Archive
The peaked shoes, chained to the knee, were not more ridiculous than the deep, wide sleeves commonly called pokeys, which were shaped like a bagpipe and were worn by all classes.
From The Evolution of Fashion by Gardiner, Florence Mary
