Definitions
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- noun
corndog on a stick, genericization of the trademark Pogo, which is a hot dog frankfurter weiner on a stick and covered in batter - verb To use a
pogo stick - verb To dance the pogo
- verb cycling To lift the front wheel of the
bicycle in the air and jump up and down on the rear wheel while in astationary position. - noun A
dance associated with 1970spunk rock movement in which participants jump up and down on the spot in the manner of someone riding a pogo stick
Etymologies
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Examples
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To paraphrase pogo, Kerry isn't running, get over it.
"He isn't seeking to perfect Swift-boating, he's seeking to end it." Ann Althouse 2008
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Apollo 4 almost ate itself because of the interstage oscillations or "pogo" as they called it.
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This involved a number of factors such as pogo suppression, structural stiffening, and other details not particularly germane to today's expendable vehicles.
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This involved a number of factors such as pogo suppression, structural stiffening, and other details not particularly germane to today's expendable vehicles.
Mike Griffin's EELV Thoughts BEFORE He Was Administrator ... - NASA Watch 2008
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This involved a number of factors such as pogo suppression, structural stiffening, and other details not particularly germane to today's expendable vehicles.
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The game's young players will participate in context appropriate exercises, such as pogo-sticking with Dora (which we all know is the most efficient method for blasting your core).
Joystiq 2010
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The test fixture has PCB retaining plastics and Millmax spring loaded "pogo" pins for connecting to the JTAG interface.
Sun Bloggers 2009
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But we are right at the same problem set, as we kind of pogo along this continuum, which is trying really hard to unite this notion of governance and making sure that just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
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But we are right at the same problem set, as we kind of pogo along this continuum, which is trying really hard to unite this notion of governance and making sure that just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
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bottom line is, similar to your stupid leader althouse, nimrods like you prefer baseless insults to an actual review of the FACTS. unfortunately, "pogo," it is you who is not very bright.
I'm assailed in the local paper for failing to take the 9/11 truthers seriously. Ann Althouse 2008
oroboros commented on the word pogo
Walt Kelly's irrepressible possum. The endlessly "Everybody's Best Friend" of the Ofeekanokee swamp.
December 2, 2006
qroqqa commented on the word pogo
My husband's eyeballs pogoed out of their sockets and boinged! into her bra cups, where they gambolled around in the throes of ecstasy before boomeranging back socketwards.
—Kathy Lette, 2001, Nip 'n' Tuck
August 13, 2008
abigail commented on the word pogo
1) "Pogo" was apparently an early trademark used for the Pogo stick. George Hansburg created a painted all metal, enclosed-spring pogo stick, which was manufactured in Elmhurst, N.Y., and patented in 1919. Pogoing became a fad in Europe and the U.S. in the early 1920s, and the name "Pogo stick" became genericized.
2) Walt Kelly ran a wonderful newspaper comic strip "Pogo", starting in 1948 and ran daily through 1975.
3) In the 1970's, most punk rockers could manage the "Pogo", a dance which involved standing with your feet together and jumping up and down.
4) "POGO" is a registered trademark of ConAgra Foods Canada Inc. for their hot dog on a stick in batter. Again, the term has become genericized, and corn dogs of this type are referred to as "pogos".
March 26, 2011