Green’s Dictionary of Slang

pohara up v.

[M?ori. pohara, ‘a pauper’, ‘poor’, ‘impoverished’]

(N.Z. prison) to be deprived, usu. as a pounishment,, of a TV in one’s cell.

[NZ]D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 142/2: pohara up v. to be without a television in one’s cell.