a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
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wasting time
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small and remote and insignificant
<adj.all> a jerkwater college passed a series of poky little one-horse towns
Pokey \Pok"ey\, a. See {Poky}.
Thanks to the Esterhazys long associated with Haydn, the Radziwills, the Liechtensteins, the old European heartlands are festooned with country residences that often make the more familiar estates in England look just a trifle pokey.
"It's about two legislators saying, 'We don't like what you say, so we're going to throw you in the pokey for it.'"