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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
poke . - noun Plural form of
poke .
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Examples
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In addition to being provocative, the title pokes fun at the fact that the Internet startup world is full of entrepreneurs who dream of making lots of money, but who naively think they don't need to sell their wares because if they build it customers will come.
Sean Black: Diary of a Silicon Valley CEO Sean Black 2011
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In addition to being provocative, the title pokes fun at the fact that the Internet startup world is full of entrepreneurs who dream of making lots of money, but who naively think they don't need to sell their wares because if they build it customers will come.
Sean Black: Diary of a Silicon Valley CEO Sean Black 2011
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In addition to being provocative, the title pokes fun at the fact that the Internet startup world is full of entrepreneurs who dream of making lots of money, but who naively think they don't need to sell their wares because if they build it customers will come.
Sean Black: Diary of a Silicon Valley CEO Sean Black 2011
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In addition to being provocative, the title pokes fun at the fact that the Internet startup world is full of entrepreneurs who dream of making lots of money, but who naively think they don't need to sell their wares because if they build it customers will come.
Sean Black: Diary of a Silicon Valley CEO Sean Black 2011
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In addition to being provocative, the title pokes fun at the fact that the Internet startup world is full of entrepreneurs who dream of making lots of money, but who naively think they don't need to sell their wares because if they build it customers will come.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Sean Black 2011
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Amusingly, the title pokes fun at role-playing clichs, sending the title's eponymous, brash, hero after an relic known only as "the artifact".
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CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Palin pokes fun at William Shatner « - Blogs from CNN. com
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* Chodin pokes noodle-covered head out from inside dumpster*
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"The 'pokes' -- what are they?" exclaimed the tall and ruddy young man, who continued to stare at her in a manner which would have discountenanced any other than Patsy.
Patsy 1887
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Conventional wisdom holds that knowledge is power, but the "dictionary" phrase pokes a little hole in that wisdom.
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