单词 | pogo |
释义 | pogon. 1. A recreational device on which a person can jump about for exercise or amusement, consisting of a long spring-loaded metal pole with a grip or handlebars at the top and rests for the feet near the bottom; more fully pogo stick. Occasionally also: the pastime of jumping on this. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > other amusements or entertainments > [noun] swinging1610 shuggie-shue1653 bilboquet1743 kite-flying1804 cup and ball1836 kittly-benders1854 cakewalk1863 mudlarking1888 pogo1921 pogoing1921 yo-yo1932 waterball1950 laugher1973 karaoke1977 bouncy castle1986 paintball1987 bouncing castle1988 paintballing1989 zorbing1996 1921 Glasgow 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. 1921 Punch 21 Sept. 225/1 Charlie Chaplin intends to give a ‘Pogo’ to each of the children who are now attending his old schools. 1921 Oxf. Times 11 Nov. 16/4 On Thursday afternoon two undergraduates were seen racing along Cornmarket Street on Pogo sticks. 1927–9 H. Wheeler Waverley Children's Dict. V. 3315/1 To maintain his balance the exponent of pogo has to keep moving, and looks rather like a kangaroo. 1958 Daily Mail 8 July 6/4 On stilts and pogo sticks (their latest craze). 1962 N.Y. Times 12 Nov. 25 The so-called independent or swing voters who bounced across voting machines in a pattern similar to that of a small boy on a pogo stick. 1973 Nature 30 Nov. 313/1 The hopping of kangaroos is reminiscent of a bouncing ball or the action of a pogo stick. 1993 New Scientist 6 Mar. 84/3 Hopping on pogo sticks..is much easier on the knees than a skipping rope or jogging. 2. A punk rock dance, whose movements are suggestive of jumping on a pogo stick. (Cf. earlier pogo-dancing at Compounds 1b). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other popular 20th-century dances > [noun] mashed potato1747 bunny hug1912 chicken scratch1912 bunny-hugging1916 jazz1919 black bottom1925 shuffle1925 Mess Around1926 snake hips1933 Susie-Q1936 Lambeth Walk1937 bunny hop1938 bop1956 pony1961 Watusi1961 locomotion1962 mash potato1962 frug1964 hully gully1964 dancercise1967 pogo1977 moonwalking1980 slam dance1981 slam dancing1981 body-popping1982 b-boying1984 mosh1985 moshing1987 1977 Kensington Post 18 Mar. 15/3 When they go out dancing they [sc. Punk Rockers] terrify the uninitiated with a dance called the ‘Pogo’—where they just jump up and down on the same spot. 1978 New 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. 1987 Q Oct. 95/2 For those ageing spiketops..this LP would provide as good an excuse as any for a 10th anniversary pogo. 1996 Independent on Sunday 4 Feb. (Real Lives section) 4/7 No wonder that the punk dance, the pogo, originated in London. Jumping on the spot is all there's room to do. 2005 Times (Nexis) 18 June Grab your partner by the hair, punch him in the face like you just don't care! This traditional pas de deux, blending aspects of the mosh and the pogo,..is destined to be huge in the Spanish resorts.. this summer. Compounds C1. a. General attributive in sense 1, as pogo carnival, pogo club, pogo hop, pogo-player, etc. ΚΠ 1921 Glasgow 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. 1924 Punch 24 Sept. 338 A dozen well-mounted pogo-players. 1994 B. Sterling Heavy Weather 95 The amputated twister, stranded in midair, took a great pogo hop forward, centering itself under the cloud again. b. With reference to punk rock (see sense 2), as pogo dance, pogo-dancing, etc. ΚΠ 1977 Zigzag 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. 1977 N.Y. Times 7 Aug. ii. 16/2 Vicious, a friend of Rotten's and the inventor..of the London punks' hopping ‘pogo’ dance. 1977 Times 14 Dec. 11 The Clash still play the driving, relentless songs that forced the invention of the pogo-dance. 1998 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 10 May 99 The crowd indulged in a communal pogo dance. 1999 Toronto Sun (Nexis) 7 Apr. (Entertainment section) 63 A concert with screaming fans, raised arms, pogo-dancing. C2. Astronautics. Denoting (the effects of) low-frequency longitudinal oscillations of a spacecraft, generated or amplified by motion of on-board fluid. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > space flight > [adjective] > type of oscillation pogo1964 1964 N.Y. Times 8 Apr. 10/1 Probably the biggest problem encountered in Gemini development so far has been the excessive vertical oscillations of earlier Titan II's. This ‘pogo effect’ was deemed so great that it would blur the vision of astronauts in the critical stages of flight. 1971 Nature 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. 1976 G. P. Sutton & D. M. Ross Rocket Propulsion Elements (ed. 4) viii. 259 Techniques for damping Pogo instability tendency include..properly designed engine, interstage, and payload support structures. 2000 Aerospace Daily (Nexis) 10 Oct. 53 Issues with an external tank attach bolt and a pogo suppression valve in the main engine fuel system were settled over the weekend. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pogov. 1. a. intransitive. To jump up and down on or as on a pogo stick. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > other amusements or entertainments > [verb (intransitive)] wawc1440 swing1662 quizc1790 sea-bathe1792 mudlark1870 pogo1921 yo-yo1932 to jump rope1934 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > other amusements or entertainments > [verb (transitive)] swing1615 hurl1893 pogo1921 1921 Glasgow Herald 30 Aug. 7 To Pogo you place one foot on each step, clutch the top of the pole firmly in both hands, and hop. 1987 Time (Nexis) 2 Mar. (Scorecard section) 9 He says his ‘sport’ is good exercise and a lot of fun—except when your stick gets stuck. This happened often..when Furman pogoed for..3 hours and 40 minutes in the clay-bottomed Amazon River. 2004 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 24 Dec. It had been years since I last pogoed, so I was quite surprised when the Post asked me to test-drive the new Flybar 1200, a supersonic pogo stick. b. intransitive. To perform a pogo dance. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > jerky dances > [verb (intransitive)] truck1937 pogo1977 1977 New Wave Mag. No. 7. 3 They just arrived and pogoed through the front door. 1991 New Musical Express (BNC) 16 Mar. 6 Wayne..is pogoing furiously behind his keyboards , like someone at a Members gig in 1978. 1995 Face Jan. 90/2 From the first, unexpectedly fiery chords of the first song, they're pogoing, screaming, singing, shouting requests. 2. transitive. To cross on or as on a pogo stick. rare. ΚΠ 1921 Punch 21 Sept. 225/1 Three men..expressed their intention of ‘Pogoing’ the Channel. 1921 Punch 21 Sept. 225/1 A small girl has ‘pogo-ed’ five hundred miles. Derivatives ˈpogoer n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > jerky dances > [noun] > dancer pogoer1977 1977 Sniffin' Glue Aug. 11/2 He changed the words to tell the posy pogoers they're only here for the fancy dress party. 1999 Times Union (Nexis) 19 May b9 Eight women in sequined sports bras and hot-pink miniskirts bouncing around on pogo sticks... The pogoers do no more than that—bounce, bounce, bounce. 2000 Guardian 29 Sept. (Friday Review section) 4/1 After 33 minutes, the band walked off and the pogoers shouted after them: ‘Plastic punks!’ ˈpogoing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > other amusements or entertainments > [noun] swinging1610 shuggie-shue1653 bilboquet1743 kite-flying1804 cup and ball1836 kittly-benders1854 cakewalk1863 mudlarking1888 pogo1921 pogoing1921 yo-yo1932 waterball1950 laugher1973 karaoke1977 bouncy castle1986 paintball1987 bouncing castle1988 paintballing1989 zorbing1996 society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > jerky dances > [noun] pogoing1921 truck1935 trucking1935 jerk1964 bump1967 society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > jerky dances > [adjective] pogoing1921 1921 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 24 Sept. (caption) The new sport fad of English society is ‘pogo-ing’. 1977 Oxf. Times 30 Sept. (City ed.) 16 The dancers at the front jumping up and down on one leg (they call it pogoing, m'dear). 1977 L. Bangs in G. Marcus Psychotic Reactions (1987) 229 When I got to the gig I pushed my way down through the pogoing masses. 1995 Mojo Jan. 117/1 The bootleg Velvets EP Foggy Notion, which..was hardly in itself responsible for gobbing, spiky haircuts and pogoing. 2005 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 10 Jan. (World section) 9 Nicholas' feet are blistered after a week of pogoing. But the nine-year-old has vowed to spend every day of the school holidays on his pogo. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1921v.1921 |
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