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Pokey, Poky or Pokie may refer to:
In entertainment
- Pokey (Gumby character), a character from the Gumby television series
- Pokey the Penguin, a surrealistic online comic strip and its eponymous title character
- Pokey, one of the ghosts in the arcade game Pac-Man
- Pokey, a recurring cactus-like monster in the Mario series
- Pokey Minch (Porky Minch), a character in the Super NES video game EarthBound (Mother 2), and the Pig King in Mother 3
- The Poky Little Puppy, a fictional character whose name is sometimes shortened to just Poky
- Poky (Yoko Tsuno), a character in comic album series Yoko Tsuno
- Poky (device), a casino gambling machine
People
Nickname
- Pokey Allen (born 1943-1996), football player and head coach
- Pokey Chatman (born 1969), Women's National Basketball Association general manager and head coach
- Pokey LaFarge (born 1983), American musician and songwriter
- Pokey Reddick (born 1964), retired National Hockey League goaltender
- Pokey Reese (born 1973), former Major League Baseball player
- Lillian Watson (born 1950), American former world record holder
Surname
- Diana Pokie, politician in Suriname - see List of current members of the National Assembly of Suriname (as of the 2010 election)
- Gregory Pokie (born 1987), footballer in Suriname - see Suriname national football team
Slang
- Pokey, a slang expression for prison
- Pokie, Australian slang for a slot machine
Other uses
- Any of several species of Poecilotheria, a genus of spiders
- Atari POKEY, a digital I/O chip in Atari home computers and many arcade games in the 1980s
- "Pokey Award" by the Straphangers Campaign for the slowest bus route, by vehicle average miles per hour, in New York City.
- Poky, a reference distribution of the Yocto Project
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