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Definition of poke the bear

poke the bear

verb

  • to antagonize a person who can become angry, violent, or who is in a position of authority. Also poke a bear.
                                                                        

    Citation from "Good Cop Bad Dog", Modern Family (TV) , Season 2 Episode 22 (2011) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

    Last edited on Nov 03 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jul 29 2011.

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Other terms relating to 'bear':

Definitions include: exclamation of disappointment.
Definitions include: a masculine homosexual male.
Definitions include: a type of doughnut.
Definitions include: doughnuts.
Definitions include: wide hips.
Definitions include: to have a grievance.
Definitions include: to defecate.
Definitions include: to antagonize a person who can become angry, violent, or who is in a position of authority.
Definitions include: Expresses your concern for another's misfortune.
Definitions include: to defecate.

Other terms relating to 'poke':

Definitions include: it means that you have to defecate so badly that in the strain to hold it in, a little bit of it pokes out, and then slides back in after a few minutes.
Definitions include: when you have to "defecate" so bad that a little bit pokes out, and then slides back in.
Definitions include: to need to defecate.
Definitions include: English colloquialism meaning a con.
Definitions include: to engage in coitus.
Definitions include: to antagonize a person who can become angry, violent, or who is in a position of authority.
Definitions include: anal sex
Definitions include: to have erect nipples visible beneath clothing.
Definitions include: Spoonerism for "smoke pot".
Definitions include: To try to change someone in a bad way. Ex: I think he has been poking at her halo.

Other terms relating to 'the':

Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone.
Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving.
Definitions include: interrogation.
Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
Definitions include: information.
Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
Definitions include: a good estimate.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: inclusive.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing.
Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
Definitions include: of a male, to urinate.
Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them
Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner.

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