poke about

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Verb

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poke about (third-person singular simple present pokes about, present participle poking about, simple past and past participle poked about)

  1. To search for something, especially in an unorganized way
    • 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Illium:
      Pitne For: Also...merely out of curiosity: When you were poking about, did you perhaps run across a shipping manifest that belongs to me?
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