Alternative form of better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick

(vulgar) Alternative form of better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick

present participle of poke someone's eye out

Alternative form of you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire

(humorous) A woman's facial attractiveness is irrelevant when considering her as a sexual partner.

A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick. / (historical) A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings. / One who pokes.

To poke with a utensil such as a poker or needle.

Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing cards, the players in sequence make tactical bets or drop out, the bets forming a pool to be taken either by the sole remaining player or, after all rounds and bets have been completed, by those remaining players who hold a superior hand according to a standard ranking of hand values for the game.

To play poker.

(US, colloquial) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.