Pokey

Pokey, Poky or Pokie may refer to:

In entertainment

• Pokey (Gumby character), a character from the Gumby television series
• the title character of Pokey the Penguin, a surrealistic online comic strip
• Pokey, one of the ghosts in the arcade game Pac-Man
• Pokey, a recurring cactus-like monster in the Mario series
• Pokey Minch (Porky Minch), a character in the Super Nintendo 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

People

Nickname

• Pokey Allen (born 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

Surname

• Diana Pokie, politician in Suriname - see List of current members of the National Assembly of Suriname (as of the 2010 election)
• Gregory Pokie (born 1987), footballer in Suriname - see Suriname national football team

Slang

• Pokey, a slang expression for jail
• Pokie, Australian slang for a slot machine

Other uses

• any of several species of Poecilotheria, a genus of spiders
• Atari POKEY, a digital I/O chip in Atari home computers and many arcade games in the 1980s