Pokey has 5 different meanings across 2 categories:
Noun
· Adjective
Noun
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)
Adjective
2
small and remote and insignificant
"a jerkwater college"
"passed a series of poky little one-horse towns"
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