"poke about" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pokes about",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "poking about",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "poked about",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "poked about",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "poke about (third-person singular simple present pokes about, present participle poking about, simple past and past participle poked about)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"about\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Illium:",
          "text": "Pitne For: Also...merely out of curiosity: When you were poking about, did you perhaps run across a shipping manifest that belongs to me?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To search for something, especially in an unorganized way"
      ],
      "id": "en-poke_about-en-verb-B9OqDlYA",
      "links": [
        [
          "search",
          "search"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "poke about"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pokes about",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "poking about",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "poked about",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "poked about",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "poke about (third-person singular simple present pokes about, present participle poking about, simple past and past participle poked about)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"about\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Illium:",
          "text": "Pitne For: Also...merely out of curiosity: When you were poking about, did you perhaps run across a shipping manifest that belongs to me?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To search for something, especially in an unorganized way"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "search",
          "search"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "poke about"
}