0 present participle of poke
1 to push a finger or other pointed object quickly into someone or something:
2 to (cause something to) appear or stretch out from behind or through something else:
3 to greet someone on a social networking website by leaving them a special short message
Sometimes only partial materialization was achieved, with grimacing faces, flapping hands, and so on poking out from the cabinet.
Specula- tors are already poking their noses here and there, trying to smell out what profits are in it for them.
Is it not a fact that these old folk, like everybody else, do not like people poking about in their houses?
There is a clear role for the media, which need to stop using stereotypical images and stop poking fun.
A very odd thing about politicians is that we love poking into other people's business.
We have our wives and families in them, but we do not want anybody else poking around.
It is no use poking fun at management and saying that that is not what is needed.
I wonder how much of that is due to people poking their fingers in the wrong holes.