pogo
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpəʊɡəʊ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊɡəʊ
Etymology 1
From pogo stick.
Verb
pogo (third-person singular simple present pogos, present participle pogoing, simple past and past participle pogoed)
- (intransitive) To use a pogo stick.
- (intransitive) To dance the pogo.
- (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.
- (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.
- To perform the skateboarding trick called a pogo.
Noun
pogo (plural pogos)
- 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.
- (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.
- (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.
- A skateboarding trick in which the board is held vertically and used like a pogo stick.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Genericization of the trademark Pogo, which is a hot-dog frankfurter on a stick and covered in batter.
Derived terms
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɔ.ɡo/
Audio (file)
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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɔ.ɡo/
- Rhymes: -ɔɡo
- Hyphenation: pò‧go
Kwama
Laboya
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpoːɡo]
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