Meaning

4 senses
  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. 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. A skateboarding trick in which the board is held vertically and used like a pogo stick.

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

Examples

1 sentences
  1. I've always wanted a pogo stick.

Origin

From pogo stick. Genericization of the trademark Pogo, which is a hot-dog frankfurter on

From pogo stick.

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

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Forms

plural: pogos
Singularpogo
Pluralpogos

regular

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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