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stick-and-poke

stick-and-poke adjective: being or relating to a kind of tattoo made without a machine, by dipping a needle into ink and poking dots into the skin.

Adjective

stick-and-poke (not comparable)

  1. Being or relating to a kind of tattoo made without a machine, by dipping a needle into ink and poking dots into the skin.

Noun

stick-and-poke (plural stick-and-pokes)

  1. Such a tattoo.
    • Started hanging out at punk shows and you got it in your head
      To leave home on a freight train 'cause that's what the cool kids did
      Now you've got some shitty stick-and-pokes and hepatitis C2013, Days N' Daze, “Goodbye Lulu”, in Rogue Taxidermy

Forms of stick-and-poke

pluralstick-and-pokes

Questions about stick-and-poke

What does stick-and-poke mean?
Stick-and-poke means being or relating to a kind of tattoo made without a machine, by dipping a needle into ink and poking dots into the skin.
What part of speech is stick-and-poke?
Stick-and-poke can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near stick-and-poke in the dictionary

  1. stick welded
  2. stick welding
  3. stick welds
  4. stick with
  5. stick-and-carrot
  6. stick-and-poke
  7. stick-and-pokes
  8. stick-at-itiveness
  9. stick-fighter
  10. stick-fighters
  11. stick-fighting

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