The word "poke" can be used in written English.
It can be used to refer to prodding someone or something with your finger or a pointed object. For example, "The cat was curious, so I gently poked it with my finger to encourage it to explore."
You want to poke them with a stick, make them do stuff, screw and eat each other," wrote the Guardian's art critic Adrian Searle.
When I was at school all my friends looked flawless, and I'd turn up with hair that I'd tried to dry with the car air vents while putting mascara on in the car and trying not to poke myself in the eye.
We'd howl through rusty suburbs, drive along the edge of the blazing cane fields, visit a few fish shops – or bars – and poke our heads into all the public buildings.
Most consumers will buy Windows 10 with a new PC, but for those feeling adventurous and wanting to have a poke around Microsoft's latest and greatest, the company is allowing users to sign up for early previews of the software still in testing.
Juventus went in front two minutes before half-time when Morata was left unmarked to poke Paul Pogba's cross into the bottom right corner.
All this is post facto studied in a very ideal atmosphere; there is a very learned lawyer who is paid very well by the opposite party, who may be a criminal, to poke holes.
Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters Updated at 9.39pm BST Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 9.16pm BST21:16 14 min: Having done well to get in behind the German defence, Sofiane Feghouli shoots from an impossible angle, when El Arabi Soudani was unmarked and available to poke home from six yards had his team-mate chosen the pass instead.
Updated at 5.00pm BST Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 4.21pm BST16:21 Jenkin Road Contador, Froome and Nibali all poke their heads out of the pack as they head up the final climb.
I can't deny I enjoyed watching Lily Allen poke fun at the notoriously sexist music industry, and in many ways I thought she was spot on.
It's always been a source of enormous pride to me that you have come together in my name, that you are proud to call yourself my listeners, that you think of me as a friend, someone that you are close enough to laugh with, to poke fun at and just occasionally when the world seemed just a little too cruel, to shed a tear with.
So companies like Vice have to poke at other taboos, like sexual violence, drug use and suicide.
