pokey

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Adjective pokey has 2 senses

dilatory, laggard, poky, pokey - wasting time
Antonym: fast (indirect, via slow)
jerkwater, one-horse, pokey, poky - small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater college"; "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns"
Antonym: cosmopolitan (indirect, via provincial)

Noun pokey has 1 sense

pokey - a slang term for jail
--₁ is a kind of jail, jailhouse, gaol, clink, slammer

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