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poked around

poked around is the simple past and past participle of poke around.

Meaning of poke around

Verb

poke around (third-person singular simple present pokes around, present participle poking around, simple past and past participle poked around)

  1. To search for something, especially in an unorganized way

Questions about poked around

What is poked around the simple past and past participle of?
Poked around is the simple past and past participle of poke around.

Words near poked around in the dictionary

  1. pokeberries
  2. pokeberry
  3. poked
  4. poked about
  5. poked along
  6. poked around
  7. poked borack
  8. poked borak
  9. poked borax
  10. poked fun
  11. poked holes in

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Adapted from Wiktionary: poked around (page history and authors); poke around (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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