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Synonyms for pokey

  • noun
  • adjective

Most common

jail jailhouse slammer cutter

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. Jail

jail, slammer, jailhouse, gaol UK, clink

2. Bassy — A knife

bassy, rambo, ying

3. Cutter

cutter, chop, slot machine, poker machine, poker, splash, borer, jook, splasher, cheffer, mindy slang, chete slang

Adjective

1. Slow

slow, dilatory, laggard

2. One-horse

one-horse, jerkwater

Other

small, dull, tedious

Antonyms

zippy, precipitant

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Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A knife.

  2. n. 2

    Prison.

  3. adj. 1

    Of a room or house, of small volume, cramped.

  4. adj. 2

    Slow.

Related words

Phrases
hokey pokey
Other spellings
pokie poky

Forms

Plural
pokeys → jails, slammers, jailhouses, gaols…

Example sentences

  • jail It's been 10 days since my boyfriend went to jail.
  • jailhouse Tom's favorite Elvis Presley song is "Jailhouse Rock."
  • slammer As far as I am concerned, prison and slammer are different things.
  • cutter Ziri cut the sheet metal with a plasma cutter.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
pokeyrising
jailrising
jailhouserising
slammerrising
cutterfalling

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
slow1, jail1, dull1, chop1, ying1, gaol, jook
5 letters
small1, poker2, mindy2, rambo2, clink1, borer2, bassy, chete
6 letters
splash1, cutter2
7 letters
tedious3, slammer2, laggard2, cheffer
8 letters
dilatory4, splasher
9 letters
jailhouse2, jerkwater

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (poker2 = 2 syllables).