Pokey

Pokey, Poky or Pokie may refer to:

In 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, the nickname for "Clyde", the orange ghost, in the arcade game Pac-Man
 * 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

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

Surname

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

Slang

 * Pokey, a slang expression for prison
 * Pokie or nipple poking, an erect nipple visible beneath clothing. Usually in the plural.
 * Pokies, Australian slang for slot machines

Other uses

 * POKEY, a digital audio chip in Atari 8-bit computers and many arcade games
 * Any of several species of Poecilotheria, a genus of spiders
 * "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