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pokey

English

  1. 🔊 small and remote and insignificant
    “a jerkwater college”
  2. 🔊 wasting time
  3. 🔊 a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)

Similar words

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