Pokey
Appearance
Pokey, Poky or Pokie may refer to:
In entertainment
[edit]- 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
[edit]Nickname
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Diana Pokie (born 1979), politician in Suriname
- Gregory Pokie (born 1987), footballer in Suriname - see Suriname national football team
Slang
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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