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pogo|ˈpəʊgəʊ|
Also Pogo.
[Orig. unknown.]
1. A stilt-like pole (also called a pogo stick) on which one jumps about (see quot. 19212); the pastime of jumping on or as on such a pole.
Formerly registered in the U.S. as a proprietary term.
1921Glasgow Herald 30 Aug. 7 What is a Pogo? It is a four-foot pole, hollowed at the foot for the insertion of a strong spring, with a rubber cushion at the end of it. About half a foot above the spring are two steps. To Pogo you place one foot on each step, clutch the top of the pole firmly in both hands, and hop. 1921Punch 21 Sept. 225/1 Charlie Chaplin intends to give a ‘Pogo’ to each of the children who are now attending his old schools. 1942Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 1 Sept. 14/2 Philip de Journo, Forest Hills, Long Island, N.Y. Pogo for jumping sticks. Claims use since Feb. 28, 1941.
b. = pogo-dance.
1978New Society 19 Jan. 115/2 The wildly exuberant punk dance—the pogo—..derives from the celebratory ‘knees-up’ of the football terraces. Basically, the participants leap up and down, two-footed, some of them alone, more in two or threes, with their arms linked... It's hot work, pogoing.
2. attrib. and Comb.
a. Simple attrib. (sense 1 a), as pogo carnival, pogo club, pogo-player, pogo stick (also transf.: see sense 2 b).
1921Glasgow Herald 30 Aug. 7 On the Continent there are Pogo clubs, which conduct Pogo carnivals where the principal items are the high and the long jumps, and there are halls where you Pogo under much the same conditions as obtained on the roller skating rinks. 1921Oxford Times 11 Nov. 16/4 On Thursday afternoon two undergraduates were seen racing along Cornmarket Street on Pogo sticks. 1924Punch 24 Sept. 338 A dozen well-mounted pogo-players. 1958Daily Mail 8 July 6/4 On stilts and pogo sticks (their latest craze). 1973Nature 30 Nov. 313/1 The hopping of kangaroos is reminiscent of a bouncing ball or the action of a pogo stick.
b. With reference to low-frequency longitudinal oscillations of a space rocket.
1968New Scientist 19 Dec. 653/2 The first stage of the three-stage rocket went into ‘pogo-stick’ oscillations. 1971Nature 10 Dec. 316/2 The Diamant B [booster rocket] has been used successfully on three previous occasions, but a strong vibrational ‘pogo effect’ was noticed. 1976Sutton & Ross Rocket Propulsion Elements (ed. 4) viii. 259 Techniques for damping Pogo instability tendency include..properly designed engine, interstage, and payload support structures.
c. Applied to dancing (esp. to punk-rock music) with movements suggestive of jumping on a pogo stick, as pogo dance, pogo-dancing.
1977Zigzag Mar. 8/1 I've never subscribed to the theory that up to the age of thirty it was all pogo dancing down the Roxy. 1977Chicago Tribune 2 Oct. vi. 14/4 The..punks' hopping ‘pogo’ dance.
Hence ˈpogo v., (a) trans. to traverse on a pogo stick; (b) intr. to jump on or as on a pogo; to perform a pogo dance; also ˈpogoer; ˈpogoing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1921Pogo vb. [see sense 1 a of the n.]. 1921Punch 21 Sept. 225/1 Three men..expressed their intention of ‘Pogoing’ the Channel. Ibid., A small girl has ‘pogo-ed’ five hundred miles. 1977Zigzag June 6/4 ‘I want him thrown out,’ he snapped to a roadie, pointing to the pogoing culprit. 1977Oxford Times (City ed.) 30 Sept. 16 The dancers at the front jumping up and down on one leg (they call it pogoing, m'dear). Ibid., Despite the vigorous pogoers, many members of the audience stood on the sidelines. 1977New Wave Mag. No. 7. 3 They just arrived and pogoed through the front door. 1978Pogoing vbl. n. [see sense 1 b of the n.] |