1. Wasting time
   - dilatory, laggard, poky 
2. Small and remote and insignificant
   - jerkwater [US], one-horse, poky

1. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
   - jail, jailhouse, gaol [Brit], clink, slammer, poky, prison

Derived forms: pokeys

See also: poke, provincial, slow

Type of: correctional institution

Encyclopedia: Pokey

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