pogo

See also: POGO, Pogo, PoGo, and pogò

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊɡəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -əʊɡəʊ

Etymology 1

From pogo stick.

Verb

pogo (third-person singular simple present pogos, present participle pogoing, simple past and past participle pogoed)

1. (intransitive) To use a pogo stick.
2. (intransitive) To dance the pogo.
3. (cycling) To lift the front wheel of the bicycle in the air and jump up and down on the rear wheel while in a stationary position.
4. (intransitive) To move rapidly up and down like a pogo stick.
   • 1997, James H. Cobb, Sea Strike, page 270:

     Just short of their objectives, the missiles pogoed, climbing steeply, then diving into their targets.

5. To perform the skateboarding trick called a pogo.
6. (video games) to jump off an enemy or another, usually hostile, object by striking it downward

Derived terms

• pogoer

Noun

pogo (plural pogos)

1. A dance associated with the 1970s punk rock movement in which participants jump up and down on the spot in the manner of someone riding a pogo stick.
2. (cycling) The act of lifting the front wheel of the bicycle in the air and jumping up and down on the rear wheel while in a stationary position.
3. (astronautics) Ellipsis of pogo oscillation, a dangerous condition where fluctuations in the thrust and acceleration produced by a rocket engine generate variations in the flow of fuel to the engine, amplifying the fluctuations of thrust and acceleration in a positive feedback cycle that can eventually tear the vehicle apart.
4. A skateboarding trick in which the board is held vertically and used like a pogo stick.

Derived terms

• pogo oscillation

Etymology 2

Genericization of the trademark Pogo, which is a hot-dog frankfurter on a stick and covered in batter.

Noun

pogo (plural pogos)

1. (US, Canada) A corndog on a stick.

Derived terms

• kogo

Anagrams

• goop

French

Etymology

From English pogo (“corndog”) genericized from the trademark Pogo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.ɡo/

• Audio (France):

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Noun

pogo m (plural pogos)

1. (Canada, food, informal) pogo (corndog on a stick)

Related terms

• kogo

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpoɡo/ [ˈpo.ɡo]
• Rhymes: -oɡo
• Syllabification: po‧go

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Tombulu [Term?].

Noun

pogo (plural pogo-pogo)

1. people who died at a young age

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Javanese ꦥꦒ (paga, “ceiling”).

Noun

pogo (plural pogo-pogo)

1. a place made of woven bamboo for storing kitchen utensils, usually placed on the ceiling

Further reading

• “pogo”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -ɔɡo
• Hyphenation: pò‧go

Verb

pogo

1. first-person singular present indicative of pogare

Kwama

Noun

pogo

1. river

References

• Goldberg, Justin; Asadik, Habte; Bekama, Jiregna; Mengistu, Mulat (2016), Gwama – English Dictionary‎^[1], SIL International

Laboya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpoːɡo]

Noun

pogo

1. axe

References

• Allahverdi Verdizade (2019), “pogo”, in Lamboya word list‎^[2], Leiden: LexiRumah

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoɡo/ [ˈpo.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -oɡo
• Syllabification: po‧go

Noun

pogo m (plural pogos)

1. pogo

Derived terms

• pogo saltarín (“pogo stick”)