pokey

adj 1: wasting time [syn: {dawdling}, {dilatory}, {laggard}, {poky}]

2: small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater college";

"passed a series of poky little one-horse towns" [syn: {jerkwater},

{one-horse}, {poky}]

n : a slang term for jail

poke

The {BASIC} command to write a value to an absolute address.

See {peek}.

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(1995-01-31)