A versatile slang word that can mean the total opposite depending on context. In everyday American English, pokey most often means annoyingly slow — a pokey driver, a pokey internet connection. In British slang it means cramped and tiny, like a pokey flat with no room to breathe. Flip it to car talk and in some UK circles it weirdly means fast or powerful. The slow/cramped meaning is far more common in modern usage, making this a slightly confusing little word with some regional personality.
Stop being so pokey — we're going to miss the entire first half if you don't speed up.
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(slang) slow.
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of small volume, cramped (of a room, house).
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(slang, of a car) fast.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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