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Pokey , Poky or Pokie may refer to:
In entertainment
Pokey (Mario) , a recurring enemy from the Super Mario series
Pokey (Gumby character) , a character from the Gumby television series
Pokey the Penguin , a surrealistic online comic strip and its eponymous title character
Pokey , the nickname for "Clyde", the orange ghost, in the arcade game Pac-Man
Pokey Minch (Porky Minch), a character in the Super NES video game EarthBound (Mother 2 ), and the Pig King in Mother 3
The Poky Little Puppy , a fictional character whose name is sometimes shortened to just Poky
Poky (Yoko Tsuno) , a character in comic album series Yoko Tsuno
Poky (device) , a casino gambling machine
People
Nickname
Pokey Allen (1943–1996), football player and head coach
Pokey Chatman (born 1969), Women's National Basketball Association general manager and head coach
Pokey LaFarge (born 1983), American musician and songwriter
Pokey Reddick (born 1964), retired National Hockey League goaltender
Pokey Reese (born 1973), former Major League Baseball player
Lillian Watson (born 1950), American former world record holder in swimming
Surname
Slang
Pokey, a slang expression for
prison
Pokie or
nipple poking , an erect nipple visible beneath clothing. Usually in the plural.
Pokies, Australian slang for
slot machines
Other uses
POKEY , a digital audio chip in Atari 8-bit computers and many arcade games
Any of several species of
Poecilotheria , a genus of spiders
"
Pokey Award " by the Straphangers Campaign for the slowest bus route, by vehicle average miles per hour, in New York City.
Poky, a reference distribution of the
Yocto Project
See also
Topics referred to by the same term