verb

• (figuratively) To rummage; to feel or grope around.
  "I poked about in the rubble, trying to find my lost keys."
• (transitive, computing, dated) To modify the value stored in (a memory address).
  "The 200 UDGs may be used either by paging between 10 sets of 20 UDGs or, alternatively, by displaying 96 different characters by poking the system variable CHARS with 256 less than the starting address of your graphics."
• (transitive) To put a poke (device to prevent leaping or breaking fences) on (an animal).
  "to poke an ox"
• (transitive) To thrust at with the horns; to gore.

noun

• (US, slang) A lazy person; a dawdler.
  "The slowness of this stupid poke tortures me to death."
• (US, slang) A stupid or uninteresting person.
  "I see you shaking your head at me, mother, and reminding me of 'That mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me;' but I don't believe I go on so; if I have nothing to say I keep still, and you'd better be a stupid poke, which I often feel myself, than waste the time with such trash."
• (US) A device to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences, consisting of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.
  "I find from their testimony , which was not contradicted , that the placing of such a poke upon such a colt in such a pasture is not considered dangerous, and that farmers are accustomed so to poke their own horses, but that they are not accustomed to put pokes on or 'hamper' horses owned by other persons without the authorization of the owner."
• (computing, dated) The storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a program or to cheat at a video game.
  "[…] everywhere you see listings festooned with Goto statements and peppered with peeks and pokes."

noun

• (archaic or Appalachia) A sack or bag.
  "And then he drew a dial from his poke, And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, ‘It is ten o'clock[…]’"
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) An ice cream cone or a bag of chips

noun

• (dialectal) Pokeweed, and its berries.
  "[W]hen rodents were scarce they ate chestnuts and rhubarb and poke and other wild food[.]"