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pokie

UK/ˈpəʊki/

pokie noun: synonym of poker machine, an electronic game of chance played for money, especially slot machines.

Noun (1)

pokie (plural pokies)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, in plural, slang) Synonym of poker machine, an electronic game of chance played for money, especially slot machines.
    • For several decades until the early 1990s, Echuca–Moama existed in the consciousness of Melburnians as the destination for pokie bus-trips. All of this changed when the Kennett Government legalised pokies in Victoria in 1993.2004, Bernard Salt, The Big Shift, page 77
    • In reality, the cheap beer and walls of pokies attract anyone and everyone.2006, author not known, Sydney City Guide, Lonely Planet, page 148
    Synonyms:
    poker machine

Noun (2)

pokie (plural pokies)

  1. (informal) Any of several species of arboreal tarantula in the genus Poecilotheria.

Examples of pokie in a sentence

  • None of these people around me punching the pokies has walked in here today expecting to be a loser.2008, Catherine Deveny, Say When, page 171:
  • I was also shocked that the poker machines (which we call pokies back home) were on full display, as in Australia, they legally have to be in a separate room.2023 July 21, Billie Schwab Dunn, “I Tried Wetherspoons Food for the First Time-I Feared I'd Get Scurvy...”, in Daily Star:

Synonyms of pokie

Forms of pokie

pluralpokies

Origin of pokie

From clipping of poker machine + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

Shortening of a mispronunciation of genus name Poecilotheria

Words formed from pokie

Phrases with pokie

Questions about pokie

What does pokie mean?
Pokie means synonym of poker machine, an electronic game of chance played for money, especially slot machines.
How do you use pokie in a sentence?
None of these people around me punching the pokies has walked in here today expecting to be a loser.
What part of speech is pokie?
Pokie is a noun.
How do you pronounce pokie?
Pokie is pronounced /ˈpəʊki/ (UK).
What is the plural of pokie?
The plural of pokie is pokies.

Words near pokie in the dictionary

  1. Pokhara
  2. Pokhrel
  3. Pokhrels
  4. pokickeries
  5. pokickery
  6. pokie
  7. pokie machine
  8. pokie machines
  9. pokier
  10. pokies
  11. pokiest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pokie (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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