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  • noun Plural form of moke.

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Examples

  • The "mokes" are so well trained -- or is it that they have traversed the same ground so often? that, in spite of all tugging at the reins, and the administration of thundering applications of your heel in the abdominal region, they will insist upon conducting you to a locality well understood, but of no very pronounced respectability.

    In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith

  • Christopher Sly, from the ale-house door, if caught while the Merry Duke had possession of him, must be chronicled for a peer of the realm; Bully Bottom, if the period of his translations fell in with the census-taking, must be numbered among the cadgers '"mokes"; nay, if Dogberry himself had encountered the officials at the moment of his pathetic lamentation, he were irrevocably written down "an ass."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various

  • Mess-hall waiters are sometimes called "mokes," while at other times the names of certain exalted dignitaries of the Navy

    American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913

  • The crowd was composed of all sorts of porters, hawkers offering their cheap wares for sale at exorbitant prices, dirty donkey boys with their wretched "mokes" looking even more starved and miserable than their owners.

    Under the Rebel's Reign Charles Neufeld 1901

  • The fashionable mokes at Esquire have, between the bunch of them, managed to come up with reasons for carrying a pocketknife -- like opening a box, or cutting string.

    Tools and Pocketknives 2009

  • The fashionable mokes at Esquire have, between the bunch of them, managed to come up with reasons for carrying a pocketknife -- like opening a box, or cutting string.

    Tools and Pocketknives 2009

  • South African police are investigating what the five mokes busted with a Cesium-137 device at a Pretoria gas station last week were up to.

    South Africa's 'dirty bomb' mystery 2010

  • How did CDI by albury smith on Monday, Feb 2, 2009 at 8: 02: 35 AM mokes and smears by William Whitten on Sunday, Feb 1, 2009 at 12: 42: 15 PM

    An avalanche of documentation that 9/11 was an "inside job" tip of an iceberg of monstrous, historical evil. 2009

  • That means that less than 20% of the population chooses the mokes who get to wear the suits in Washington.

    This Election Will Not Be Stolen 2008

  • Not only is this a storm in a teacup, it mokes the MP's who reported look inept to everybody except their most partisan supporters.

    More Tory Funding Opacity: The Boy Mann Done Good 2008

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