pokey
Slang for jail
Pokey has two main meanings.
As an adjective, it describes something small, cramped, or slow: a pokey little apartment, The service was pokey.
As a noun, the pokey is slang for jail or prison: He spent six months in the pokey.
Also spelled poky.
Basic unit of life
- inmateConfined facility resident
- wardenSupervisory custodian of place
- prisonConfinement for offenders
- incarcerationConfinement in jail
convict · detention · correctional · felon · sentence · lockup · penitentiary · reformatory
Slow and inactive
- ploddingMoving slowly, heavily
- lethargicLacking energy or alertness
- dawdlingLeisurely time-wasting
- laggingFailing to keep pace
unhurried · crawling · snail-paced · torpid · lumbering · dilatory · meandering · ambling
Fearing confined spaces
- tightFirmly stretched or fitting
- constrictedMade narrower by pressure
- narrowOf small width
- confinedKept within bounds
compact · stifling · snug · small · tiny · squeezed · restricted · close
Belonging to earlier times
- datedOld-fashioned or courted
- quaintAttractively unfamiliar, outdated
- antiquatedOld and outdated
- dowdyUnstylish in appearance
frumpy · fusty · unfashionable · behind the times · old-time · shabby · worn · rundown
cell
Basic unit of life
incarceration · convict · detention · correctional · felon · sentence · lockup · penitentiary · reformatory · custody
sluggish
Slow and inactive
lagging · unhurried · crawling · snail-paced · torpid · lumbering · dilatory · meandering · ambling · lingering
claustrophobic
Fearing confined spaces
- tightFirmly stretched or fitting
- constrictedMade narrower by pressure
- narrowOf small width
confined · compact · stifling · snug · small · tiny · squeezed · restricted · close · pinched
old-fashioned
Belonging to earlier times
- datedOld-fashioned or courted
- quaintAttractively unfamiliar, outdated
- antiquatedOld and outdated
dowdy · frumpy · fusty · unfashionable · behind the times · old-time · shabby · worn · rundown · dingy
- prisoncell block, inmate, jail, prison, prisoner
- confinement cellsjail cell, prison cell, holding cell, detention cell, solitary cell
- prison slangshank, shiv, yard, cellie, commissary
- poker faceIntentionally expressionless look
- pig in a pokeUninspected purchase, uncertain value
- poking funMocking in jest
- poking aroundSearching aimlessly through things
- poke funGently ridicule someone
- poker chipsWagering game currency
poke, poky, poked, poker, poking, pokes, pokeys, pokiness, pokier