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 --
Yet we hear speeches criticising and poking fun at the fact that we are building 300,000 houses and solving the housing problem.
Members find it hard to resist poking fun at my continued idealism in raising the game of politics.
I recall being upbraided some years ago by an older councillor who accused me of poking my nose into matter which should not worry me.
They always walk in and start poking around by themselves.
Some of us have been told we were poking sticks into the machinery of local government.
I claim to represent the public interest, which is always a good alibi when you are poking your nose into other people's business.
I believe that is an invitation to empire building and poking of noses.
I wonder how much of that is due to people poking their fingers in the wrong holes.
