poke around

phrasal verb

poked around; poking around; pokes around

informal

: to look around or search through something

He poked around in his closet for something to wear to the party.

—often used figuratively

I don't want you poking around in my personal life.

Examples of poke around in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

So Joe Schoen and the Giants are poking around this week on the free agent corner market, including on the Minnesota Vikings’ Byron Murphy Jr., according to a source. —Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2025

One more trade deadline item: Could Colorado poke around for a bigger bottom-six center? —Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 22 Feb. 2025

Tom does find some new purpose in comforting Anne and assisting her with searching for Dave, asking a cop friend and poking around the town’s postcard-ready rocky harbor. —Nicolas Rapold, Deadline, 16 Feb. 2025

Thanks to some sloppiness by the not-so-tech-savvy Matty, Shae is also aware that Matlock has been extensively and suspiciously poking around on her LinkedIn page. —Noel Murray, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2025

Rhymes for poke around

• abound
• aground
• astound
• background
• campground
• clothbound
• confound
• earthbound
• eastbound
• expound
• fairground
• foreground