Poke At

Definition: Poke At

Poke At

Verb

1. To push against gently.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Poke At

Attack

Strike at, poke at, thrust at; aim a blow at, deal a blow at; give one a blow, fetch one a blow, fetch one a kick, give one a kick; have a cut at, have a shot at, take a cut at, take a shot at, have a fling at, have a shy at; be down upon, pounce upon; fall foul of, pitch into, launch out against; bait, slap on the face; make a thrust at, make a pass at, make a set at, make a dead set at; bear down upon.

Impulse

Strike, knock, hit, tap, rap, slap, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pink, lunge, yerk; kick, calcitrate; butt, strike at; (attack); whip c. (punish).

Ship

Ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig; brigantine, barkantine; schooner; topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner; chasse-maree; sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy, cat, buss; sailer, sailing vessel; windjammer; steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruisp, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pip, ship of the line; destroyer, cruiser, frigate; landing ship, LST; aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop, nuclear powered carrier; submarine, submersible, atomic submarine.

Crosswords: Poke At

You wanna take a poke at me? (Enemy of the State; writing credit: David Marconi)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Indonesian

merujah (poke at a fire). (various references)

Pig Latin

okepay atay

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: atop, kept, keto, pate, peak, peat, poet, poke, take, tape, teak, tepa, toea, toke, tope.

-3 letters: ape, apt, ate, eat, eta, kae, kat, kea, kep, koa, kop, oak, oat, oka, oke, ope, opt, pat, pea, pet, pot, tae, tao, tap, tea, toe, top.

-4 letters: ae, at, et, ka, oe, op, pa, pe, ta.

+2 letters: lakeport, outspeak, parroket.

+3 letters: bookplate, karyotype, lakeports, outspeaks, parrokets, retropack.

+4 letters: alpenstock, bookplates, karyotyped, karyotypes, outsparkle, picketboat, pocketable, postmarked, prokaryote, retropacks, swoopstake.

+5 letters: alpenstocks, backstopped, blacktopped, kinetoplast, kleptomania, outsparkled, outsparkles, outspeaking, peacockiest, perestroika, phantomlike, picketboats, plasterwork, prokaryotes, realpolitik, spatterdock, zooplankter.