Pokey

Pokey, Poky or Pokie may refer to:

Entertainment

• Pokey (Mario), a recurring enemy from the Super Mario series
• Pokey (Gumby character), a character from the Gumby television series
• Pokey the Penguin, a surrealistic online comic strip and its eponymous title character
• 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
• Slot machines (Australian slang: pokies)
• Pokey, the nickname for "Clyde", the orange ghost, in the arcade game Pac-Man

People

Nickname

• Pokey Allen (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 in swimming
• Ontaria Wilson (born 1999), gridiron football player

Surname

• Diana Pokie (born 1979), politician in Suriname
• Gregory Pokie (born 1987), footballer in Suriname; see Suriname national football team

Science and technology

• POKEY, a digital audio chip in Atari 8-bit computers and many arcade games
• Pokey, several species of Poecilotheria, a genus of spiders
• Poky, a reference distribution of the Yocto Project

Other uses

• Prison (slang: Pokey)
• Nipple poking or pokie, an erect nipple visible beneath clothing
• Pokey Award, by the Straphangers Campaign, for bus routes in New York City, US

See also

• Big Pokey (1974–2023), American rapper
• Poke (disambiguation)
• Poki (disambiguation)