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poking around

poking around is the present participle and gerund 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 poking around

What is poking around the present participle and gerund of?
Poking around is the present participle and gerund of poke around.

Words near poking around in the dictionary

  1. pokily
  2. pokiness
  3. poking
  4. poking about
  5. poking along
  6. poking around
  7. poking borack
  8. poking borak
  9. poking borax
  10. poking fun
  11. poking holes in

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Adapted from Wiktionary: poking 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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