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English

Adjective

hokie (comparative hokier, superlative hokiest)

1. Alternative spelling of hokey

   I never saw such a hokie band uniform.

Anagrams

• Kohei

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: p?'k?, IPA^(key): /?p??ki/
• Homophone: pokey

Etymology 1

From poker machine +? -ie (“diminutive suffix”); believed to have been coined in New South Wales in the 1970s.

Noun

pokie (plural pokies)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A poker machine. Mostly used in the plural (pokies). Poker machine is the standard term used in the singular.
   • 2004, Bernard Salt, The Big Shift, page 77,

     For several decades until the early 1990s, Echuca–Moama existed in the consciousness of Melburnians as the destination for pokie bus-trips. All of this changed when the Kennett Government legalised pokies in Victoria in 1993.

   • 2006, author not known, Sydney City Guide, Lonely Planet, page 148,

     In reality, the cheap beer and walls of pokies attract anyone and everyone.

   • 2008, Catherine Deveny, Say When, page 171,

     None of these people around me punching the pokies has walked in here today expecting to be a loser.

Synonyms

• poker machine, pokie machine, fruit machine, slot, slot machine

Translations

See also

• slot machine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Shortening of genus name Poecilotheria

Noun

pokie (plural pokies)

1. (informal) Any of several species of arboreal tarantula in the genus Poecilotheria.

Further reading

• Poecilotheria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Poecilotheria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Poecilotheria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons