1. small and cramped; uncomfortably confined
Usage: informal
2. annoyingly slow
Usage: informal

1. jail or prison
Usage: slang

Examples

• The apartment was too pokey for a family of four.
• We couldn’t fit all our furniture in the pokey kitchen.
• The old computer was so pokey it took forever to start up.
• Stop being so pokey – we’re going to be late!
• He spent the night in the local pokey after the bar fight.
• The sheriff threatened to throw him in the pokey.
• Their pokey little office had no windows.
• She drove at a pokey pace that frustrated other drivers.