1. plural of pokey: small, cramped rooms or spaces
Usage: informal
2. plural of pokey: jails or prisons
Usage: slang

Examples

• The old apartment building was full of tiny pokeys that barely fit a bed.
• Students complained about being assigned to the pokeys in the basement dormitory.
• The detective threatened to throw them in the pokeys if they didn’t cooperate.
• These pokeys are too small for anyone to live comfortably.
• He spent three nights in one of the county pokeys.
• The pokeys upstairs are hardly bigger than closets.