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poking
noun
The act by which something is poked.
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She gestured to a flower-seller with long, braided hair and the traditional huipil (embroidered blouse) and voluminous skirts of the Juchiteca – but the hands wrapping dripping stems of tuberoses and hibiscus were enormous and hairy, and there was a prominent Adam's apple poking out above the neckline of the blouse.
After two terms poking fun at Labor, conservative voters – keen for a long-term, stable Coalition government – can no longer hold their head high.
"They were poking umbrellas through the ropes trying to trip people going from tee to green.
He questions why the totalitarian state is often seen as a source of amusement, despite well-documented human rights abuses, and thinks westerners would not feel as comfortable poking fun at Syrian president Bashar al-Assad or laughing at the eccentricities of Islamic State (Isis).
5 Scoop six mounds of dough, the size of generous golf balls, on to the baking sheet, making sure to turn horizontally any chocolate pieces that are poking up: it will make for a more attractive cookie.
Our prime minister feels free to sneer at women in parliament, and the Catholic church is poking its nose into schools, the far right is on the up, and cheap women are still a joke.
Any object you can conceive of having a USB attachment poking out of it is for sale, along with several hundred thousand that you can't.
GOAL! Tottenham Hotspur 3-1 Maribor (Defoe 75) Defoe wraps up a fine hat-trick after poking home from seven yards at the end of a splendid move.
Ravi Bopara pushed stiffly to second slip, Greg Smith was bowled poking forward at his first ball, and Ben Foakes unimpressed to be given out leg before for another golden duck as Groenewald, a 30-year-old South African who has settled in the Midlands, exploited inevitable spring moisture to show again what a shrewd signing he has been from Warwickshire.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 5.55am BST05:55 Paul Ryan gets nasty, as Biden disputes some of the numbers that the Republican is poking out of his mouth.
He loves how giving cameras to children reveals their creative eye – how they may pick out a lone dandelion, say, poking through a log.
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