pokeout

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noun

A handout (gift to the needy).

Scrabble 13
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Meanings

nounpokeout (plural pokeouts)

plural pokeouts

  1. archaicrareslangA 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'
Cite this entry
APA

pokeout. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pokeout

MLA

“pokeout.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pokeout. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pokeout,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pokeout.

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