poke ** , also: proke BrE dialect

They took two of them, officials said, and poked other students.

When companies are not poking around about one another, they always have us.

With great care, Green poked his head out past the wall.

Just outside the door, he turned and poked his head back in.

His friend poked her head in from the next room.

I poked all along the wall trying to find his hand again.

Was she to be poked in the heart the rest of her life?

Your father did a lot of poking around last night.

And then one of his people poked her head back out.

She poked her head in, saw him on the phone.

She poked her head in and looked around the room.

A boy about my own age poked his head down.

She did, and I poked around the office a bit.

He poked at the paper on the table in front of him.

He poked his head out and just looked at me.

I quickly got out of the car and poked my head back in.

She poked her head in, saw nothing, and went to the next one.

He poked his head into the first room on the right.

He's been poking her off and on for a bit.

He poked his head back into the room, to take a last look.

The last thing she needed right now was to have him poking at her all night.

He poked his head up to get a look at the situation and called again.

Then someone poked her head in at the door and called to the children.

But you know, I still see him poking around the place once in a while.

A small child kept poking his head out of a room.

Well, he would if you took a poke at me.

It takes about an hour to have a good poke around.

Poke turned around, and there was the little boy right behind her.

In short, a poke is whatever you want it to be.

"Would it make you feel better to take a poke at me?"

One more poke and it brought the response he was waiting for.

Poke had put him up a hell of a fight.

Poke said, and looked up just in time to get both barrels.

Second, he has left me a pig in a poke.

Good enough to take another poke at the skinny guy.

He's got a poke somewhere and I'm going to find it.

For what is the content, if not a poke in the eye?

If you're high, I'll give you the money and forget the poke.

The girl was so beautiful that he felt like giving her another poke.

When you got right down to it, Poke was sort of a mess.

If my old buddy Poke could see me now, he'd never believe it.

But then, the some would apply to Poke, the first time he killed.

With a grin, she used her free hand to get in one more poke.

He looked away from her to the boys and reached down to give each of them a poke in the arm.

Startled, she had looked up at him, and then she'd felt the hard poke in her side.

A poke at Manhattan's private school scene, by a teacher who works in same.

A poke in the side brought Jim back to the ordinary world.

So did watching as Poke screwed up the plan he gave her.

This is not so much a post about Obama than a poke at the left.