poke it with a stick

"Poke it with a stick" is an idiom and originates in one's coming across a motionless thing, possibly some sort of creature. One typically responds by poking it with a stick or any longish handy object one wouldn't mind possibly getting gooey when visual inspection alone fails to identify the thing. Verbal speculation with others is exhausted and one is urged to "poke it with a stick." By poking with a stick, one hopes to find if the thing will move (in which case, all run away), or to find if it seems soft or rigid or recently soft and now rigid, or if the entire thing or only a portion of it is present plus any other information poking a thing with a stick may yield. The stick allows one to investigate in the moment of discovery in situ, when it is unwise or disgusting to use a finger or toe. As an idiom, "poke it with a stick" means that a thing or situation is suspect and elicits morbid curiosity.

"Is that a snake?" "I don't know. Has it moved?" "I don't think so." "Let's poke it with a stick."
If you poke a guru with a stick, will you find the skin thick, or thin and already full of holes?

by TheOneTrueJune December 10, 2013

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Swag Stick

Noun
A simple wooden cane. Used by a man who has such an incredible amount of swag that he must extend some of said swag to an object other than himself.

this fine tuxedo puts me in need of a swag stick.

by AxelDoyle February 16, 2013

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F-Stick

The male sexual organ located in the lower abdominal area. Can be used as a noun to describe someone you feel is an idiot or stupid, such as a 'tool'. Literally meaning Fuck Stick.

You're such an F-Stick. Listen here F-Stick, you don't know what you're talking about.

by Manley Hall November 15, 2007

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