poke
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- noun
- /poʊk/
- Specialized
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Phytolacca americana
- "You no good, pig-in-a-poke, shit-for-brains bastard!" She moaned like someone was killing her.
- poke salad
- grow poke
Examples
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I love poke, Thai food, big one.
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You stay cool, Poke Salad Annie.
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And I saw this recipe downtown that made vegan poke bowls out of tomato.
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" He likes to get out into their yard toward the end of the day and break off last year's dead flower stalks and bone-white old poke plants and burn them in a fire kindled on the day's newspaper, the Brewer Standard.
Fiction book (1990) -
Then, he set the sound post with the aid of a wire, dyed the boxwood fingerboard dark with the juice of poke berries, and sat for hours carving the viper's head curled over against its body.
Fiction book (1997) -
Poke, a popular dish in the southern United States, is made from the young leaves of the pokeweed plant.
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During the Poke Salad Festival, attendees enjoy various dishes made from poke, a local delicacy.
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The young stems of the poke plant can be boiled to make a nutritious salad, often enjoyed in spring.
Synonyms
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A tall wild plant with dark purple berries that are poisonous if eaten
A tall North American plant with white flowers whose young shoots people cook but whose berries and roots are poisonous
A tall wild plant with white flowers whose young shoots you can eat but whose berries and roots are poisonous
A tall American plant with white flowers whose small dark fruits and roots are poisonous but young stems are edible
A tall wild plant with small white flowers whose young shoots people eat but whose berries and roots are poisonous
Idioms
- Informal
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To do something on purpose to make an angry or dangerous person react
- Informal
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To buy something without checking it first and risk being cheated
- Informal
A joking way to say something is very unpleasant or painful
Compounds
- US
A poisonous plant with large leaves and greenish yellow flower clusters that people use in traditional medicine
- Specialized
A quick push with a hockey stick that knocks the puck away from an opponent
A milkweed plant from eastern North America with white and green flowers that grows in shady woods
Surface Forms
Etymology
Poke for the plant (as in 'pokeweed') comes from a Native American (Algonquian) name for the wild plant, which is why the American herb kept the simple name 'poke'.