poke

/pəʊk/ verb

Definition

› [T] to quickly push your finger or other pointed object into someone or something: Nell kept poking me in the arm. He poked the fire with his stick.

poke (sth) round/out/through, etc › to appear through or from behind something, or to make something do this: Grace poked her head round the door. I thought I saw a bicycle wheel poking out of the water. → See also poke/stick your nose into sth

(Definition of poke verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)