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Idioms and Phrases

Also, poke about . Look through things; also, make an investigation. For example, I was poking around the attic when I found these old photos , or The detective was poking about, tracking where she went on that fatal day . [Early 1800s] Also see nose about ; poke one's nose into .
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Example Sentences

Sure, some of us might still poke around for a few hours on Ancestry.com.

If pickups and Wranglers are more your style, poke around Fort Worth.

So he started to poke around, hoping to run across some island that was more than a mere patch of the omnipresent mangrove tangle.

Don't you come if you'd rather poke around your old churches and things!

Perhaps if I poke around here long enough, Mrs. Rhett will decide to see me.

It was his wont to stroll off when his camp duties for the day were over and poke around in the adjacent woods.

Having eaten what was allotted to him, Randy began to poke around with the pick, while his uncle and Earl still rested.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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