poke

poke
   1. (the) obsolete summary dismissal
   from employment
   Punning on the meaning to push, and a poke is also a sack, as in the phrase buy a pig in a poke, to be deceived or cheated:
    He's gi'en him t'poke. (Leeds Mercury Supplement, April 1896, quoted in EDD) poke
   2. (of a male)
   to copulate with
   The common imagery:
   3. I poontang 306
    Don't get to poke too many women too often. (Bradbury, 1976)
   A poke is either a single act of copulation:
    Nice trouble-free way of victualling your girl-friend between pokes. (Amis, 1978)
   or the female participant, as seen by the male.
   Some homosexual use; and the American pogey bait, candy, was the 'inducement held out by old sailors for the favours of fatcheeked smooth-bottomed young cabin boys' (Styron, 1976).
   3. a prison
   Possibly from the meaning sack, and as pokey:
    He just got out of poke three months ago. (Sanders, 1970)
    'Another night in the pokey,' forecast Maddison gloomily. (L. Thomas, 1996 — Mrs Maddison had assaulted a policeman)

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