poky
poh kee
- n 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)
- s wasting time
- s small and remote and insignificant
passed a series of poky little one-horse towns
- For a species that prides itself on its athletic prowess, human beings are a pretty poky group.
- And remember the military's poky timetable: "We are trying to decide now how to redeploy the troops we already have in Afghanistan, the units that provided the security for the .
- The quality problem was solved thanks to the proliferation of high-speed broadband lines, over which VoIP calls sound far better than they do over poky dial-up lines.