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Hokie vs Pokie - What's the difference?

hokie | pokie |

As nouns the difference between hokie and pokie

is that hokie is a student, alumnus, or supporter of Virginia Tech/V.P.I. (University), Blacksburg, Virginia while pokie is a poker machine.

As an adjective hokie

is an alternative spelling of hokey.

hokie

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A student, alumnus, or supporter of (University), Blacksburg, Virginia.
  • The mascot of (University), Blacksburg, Virginia.

    • pokie

    English

    (wikipedia pokie)

    Etymology 1

    From ; believed to have been coined in New South Wales in the 1970s.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A poker machine.
  • * 2004 , Bernard Salt, The Big Shift , page 77,
    • For several decades until the early 1990s, Echuca–Moama existed in the consciousness of Melburnians as the destination for pokie' bus-trips. All of this changed when the Kennett Government legalised ' pokies in Victoria in 1993.
  • * 2006 , author not known, Sydney City Guide , Lonely Planet, page 148,
    • In reality, the cheap beer and walls of pokies attract anyone and everyone.
  • * 2008 , , Say When , page 171,
    • None of these people around me punching the pokies has walked in here today expecting to be a loser.
    Synonyms
    * poker machine, pokie machine, fruit machine, slot, slot machine

    See also

    * (slot machine)

    Etymology 2

    Shortening of genus name

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) Any of several species of arboreal tarantula in the genus .

    • External links

    * (Poecilotheria) * (specieslite) * (comcatlite)