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1. Wasting time
   - dilatory, laggard, pokey
    
2. Small and remote and insignificant
   "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns"
   - jerkwater [US], one-horse, pokey

1. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
   - jail, jailhouse, gaol [Brit], clink, slammer, pokey, prison, calaboose [Austral]

Derived forms: pokiest, pokier, pokies

See also: poke, provincial, slow

Type of: correctional institution