poke about

Meaning

1. Oxford50% of films

   to look for sth, especially sth that is hidden among other things that you have to move

In the movies · 8

• How do you think I live, poking about...Sense and Sensibility1995
• So it's a little odd to find him poking around the kitchen--Come from Away2021
• A device set to destruct if anyone goes poking around inside himGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 32023
• I've poked and prodded about a hundred times, 50-- But you think she got pulled through there somehow?Poltergeist2015

Learn it in full scenes

• Sense and Sensibility1995
  • John Dashwood's Deathbed Promise
  • The Dashwoods Lose Norland
  • Edward Ferrars Visits Norland
• Come from Away2021
  • Gander Learns of the Emergency
  • Planes Land Unexpectedly in Gander
  • Gander Declares a State of Emergency

From the same entry

• poke fun at
• poke your nose into
• poke at
• have a poke around
• take a poke at
• a pig in a poke