poke around
phrasal verbpoke around
(also poke about especially in British English)
- (informal) to look for something, especially something that is hidden among other things that you have to move
- The police spent the day poking around in his office but found nothing.
- (figurative) We've had journalists poking around and asking a lot of questions.
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