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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?

Poke it out 

When sitting down on a stool naked, you start rocking back and forth and as you rock back and forth, your ass cheeks start spreading open revealing your asshole as you thrust backward and as you thrust forward, your ass cheeks close and thus your asshole isnt revealed anymore.
Man o' man. she knows how to poke it out sitting on that stool. she has one hot asshole.
Poke it out by Bobby Knobi February 1, 2010

you poke it you own it

A reference to a Budweiser commercial where an overloaded table server sticks a free finger in a bottle of Budweiser in order to serve one more item.

Its now some type of "Man Law"
Bob: Hey Bryan, are you gonna eat that ::sticks his finger in Bryan's food::

Bryan: You poke it you own it.

stroke it, poke it, put it in the hole 

A very inappropriate softball cheer. Used by coaches to get their teams ready to hit... what we dont know
When the team came in from playing defense, the coach has the team cheer "Stroke it, poke it, put it in the hole" to get them fired up to hit

Poke the beasty and feed it some grass 

The compex analysis of theoretical problems with no solutions.
Megan: I need some help deriving the isothermal expansion of reversible work.
Joe: Well, just poke the beasty and feed it some grass.