What's the difference between pokey and slammer?

Pokey


Definition:

  • (a.) See Poky.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 1.24pm BST An email: "Re your mentioning Jim White Day, Jim gets his barnet cut in the same pokey barbers as I do in Richmond.
  • (2) I've previously stood in the pokey bed chamber where it is thought William Shakepeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, the grander birthplace of Winston Churchill at Blenheim Palace and the cramped abode where Stan Laurel breathed his first in Ulverston, Cumbria.
  • (3) Hocking no longer lives in that pokey apartment, but then she's no longer a struggling would-be author.
  • (4) What Ms Sturgeon does require to be told is that many of the rest of us have not thus far encountered a spell in the pokey for assorted concealed delinquencies only through fortunate circumstance and the prayers of countless grannies, aunties and mums.
  • (5) His name is commemorated in a pokey square under the monstrous Stratford Centre built after the clearances.
  • (6) For what it can cost to rent a room in a pokey flat, you've got the run of a 10-bedroom Victorian house that comes complete with a grand piano, conservatory and a willow tree.
  • (7) Their thesis is not new, but the evidence of pokey overpriced housing and endless unpaid internships piles up convincingly.
  • (8) In particular, what will his weird toe-pokey free-kick style do to this ball?

Slammer


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For instance, there is literally no one in the United States who has ever pounded a dinner table in outrage over government complacency, yelling, "But if we're so tough on financial crime, why haven't we thrown those obscure Asian bureaucrats of a foreign bank into the slammer for fixing a London-based interest rate?!"
  • (2) Short of ordering all prisoners to be flogged twice daily, I can think of nothing more calculated to cause unrest in the slammers than banning snout, burn, tobacco.
  • (3) This suggests that, today, Newsnight’s releasing the FBI document would land me or my informants in the slammer.
  • (4) Bovine corneal endothelial cells were cultured on a Collodion film which covered a hole punched in a plastic coverslip, and were quickly frozen with a slammer with their basal surface facing a liquid nitrogen-cooled copper block.
  • (5) And we'll live on ice cream and blueberry truffles and pancakes dripping with molasses, washed down with tequila slammers and absinthe.
  • (6) Click here to view video The trailer didn't look promising – Waspy blonde gets sent to the slammer where she learns how hard life is for poor black people – but this comedy-drama is finely balanced, funny, sharp and easy to love.
  • (7) If you ask for a tequila slammer, it will be served with a withering put down – this isn't that sort of establishment.

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