Adjective pokey has 2 senses
  1. dilatory, laggard, poky, pokey - wasting time
    Antonym: fast (indirect, via slow)
  2. jerkwater, one-horse, pokey, poky - small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater college"; "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns"
    Antonym: cosmopolitan (indirect, via provincial)
,Noun pokey has 1 sense
  1. pokey - a slang term for jail
    --1 is a kind of
    jail, jailhouse, gaol, clink, slammer
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