Pokey
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Pokey, Poky or Pokie may refer to:
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 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
- Slot machines (Australian slang: pokies)
- Pokey, the nickname for "Clyde", the orange ghost, in the arcade game Pac-Man
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
- Ontaria Wilson (born 1999), gridiron football player
Surname
- Diana Pokie (born 1979), politician in Suriname
- Gregory Pokie (born 1987), footballer in Suriname; see Suriname national football team
Science and technology
- POKEY, a digital audio chip in Atari 8-bit computers and many arcade games
- Pokey, several species of Poecilotheria, a genus of spiders
- Poky, a reference distribution of the Yocto Project
Other uses
- Prison (slang: Pokey)
- Nipple poking or pokie, an erect nipple visible beneath clothing
- Pokey Award, by the Straphangers Campaign, for bus routes in New York City, US
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