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pokeout

pokeout noun: a handout (gift to the needy).

Noun

pokeout (plural pokeouts)

  1. (archaic, rare, slang) A handout (gift to the needy).
    • He found that instead of being 'a moocher of pokeouts at back doors' he could collect pocketfuls of coins in Bourbon Street in New Orleans by singing in the grog shops and can joints where a table of sailors was provided with glasses and a gallon tin of beer for two bits.2011, Kenneth Allsop, Hard Travellin'

Forms of pokeout

pluralpokeouts

Questions about pokeout

What does pokeout mean?
Pokeout means a handout (gift to the needy).
What part of speech is pokeout?
Pokeout is a noun.
What is the plural of pokeout?
The plural of pokeout is pokeouts.

Words near pokeout in the dictionary

  1. pokelokens
  2. Pokemon
  3. Pokemon Goer
  4. Pokemon Goers
  5. Pokemons
  6. pokeout
  7. pokeouts
  8. Pokephilia
  9. pokeporn
  10. poker
  11. poker chip

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