pogo
pogo Lexical Profile
pogo Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A pogo stick; a spring-loaded pole fitted with handlebars and footrests, used as a toy for bouncing up and down.
"The children took turns hopping down the driveway on an old metal pogo."
An energetic style of dance associated with punk rock music, in which dancers jump up and down on the spot as if riding a pogo stick.
"The crowd near the stage broke into a lively pogo as soon as the band played their opening chords."
A dangerous vertical oscillation or vibration in a liquid-propellant rocket engine caused by fluctuations in fuel pressure and thrust.
"Aerospace engineers installed specialized dampers in the fuel lines to prevent pogo during the rocket's ascent."
• verb
To jump or bounce up and down repeatedly on or as if on a pogo stick, especially as a form of dancing to punk rock music.
"Fans pogoed enthusiastically across the dance floor throughout the entire concert."
• Rhymes for pogo
Word Origin & Etymology
Originating in the early 1920s from the German trademark 'Pogostick', traditionally said to be an acronym formed from the initials of its German inventors, Max Pohlig and Ernst Gottschall.