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pogo

/ˈpəʊɡəʊ/

pogo verb: to use a pogo stick. Also the ellipsis of pogo oscillation.

Verb

pogo (third-person singular simple present pogos, present participle pogoing, simple past and past participle pogoed)

  1. (intransitive) To use a pogo stick.
  2. (intransitive) To dance the pogo.
  3. 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.
  4. (intransitive) To move rapidly up and down like a pogo stick.
    • Just short of their objectives, the missiles pogoed, climbing steeply, then diving into their targets.1997, James H. Cobb, Sea Strike, page 270
  5. To perform the skateboarding trick called a pogo.
  6. to jump off an enemy or another, usually hostile, object by striking it downward

Noun (1)

pogo (plural pogos)

  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.

Noun (2)

pogo (plural pogos)

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

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Pogo

Pogo

  1. A barangay of Alaminos, Pangasinan, Philippines.
  2. A barangay of Bautista, Pangasinan, Philippines.
  3. A barangay of Mangaldan, Pangasinan, Philippines.

Noun (3) capitalized: POGO

POGO (plural POGOs)

  1. (Philippines, abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: PoGo

PoGo

  1. (abbreviation, slang) Abbreviation of Pokémon Go.
    Synonyms:
    PG

Also used as

pogo is also the ellipsis of pogo oscillation.

Synonyms of pogo

Forms of pogo

Verb
third-person singular presentpogos
present participlepogoing
past participlepogoed
pastpogoed
Noun
pluralpogos
pluralPOGOs

Origin of pogo

From pogo stick.

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

Words formed from pogo

Phrases with pogo

Words that rhyme with pogo

Questions about pogo

What does pogo mean?
Pogo means to use a pogo stick.
What part of speech is pogo?
Pogo can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce pogo?
Pogo is pronounced /ˈpəʊɡəʊ/.
What is the past tense of pogo?
The past tense of pogo is pogoed.

Words near pogo in the dictionary

  1. poghaden
  2. pogi point
  3. pogi points
  4. pogie
  5. pogies
  6. pogo
  7. POGO hub
  8. pogo oscillation
  9. pogo oscillations
  10. pogo stick
  11. pogo sticks

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pogo (page history and authors); Pogo (page history and authors); POGO (page history and authors); PoGo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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