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

Researchers in the burgeoning subfield of mechanistic interpretability, inspired by neuroscience, instead try to understand models by opening them up and poking around inside. —Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025

The market for starting pitchers will be thin, and teams will poke around the Giants’ rotation, especially if some of the minor-league arms are pitching well and deserve a trial in the majors. —Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025

But as anyone who’s spent time poking around the crowded digital aisles of the Prime Video app knows, that’s not what happened. —Josef Adalian, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025

It can often be seen walking slowly along the shore, poking around for fiddler crabs, among the species’ favored prey. —Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2025

Rhymes for poke around

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