POGO

[poh-goh]

noun

1. Polar Orbiting Geophysical Observatory.

pogo

/ ˈpəʊɡəʊ /

verb

1. (intr) to jump up and down in one spot, as in a punk dance of the 1970s

Other Word Forms

• pogoer noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of pogo¹

C20: from _{pogo stick} ; from the motion

Example Sentences

Malian trucks load up at Yamoussoukro or Abidjan and then cross the border via Tengrela or Pogo, travelling under military escort once inside Mali until their arrival in Bamako.

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The series also resists the temptation to show Gacy dressed up as Pogo the Clown, the image that helped kick several generations’ claims of coulrophobia into high gear.

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Since then, the stock has been “bouncing near the bottom like a pogo stick in an infinity pool,” as Mizuho healthcare equity strategist Jared Holz put it in an email to investors early Wednesday.

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The charming and funny contractor was active in local politics, enjoyed painting and even did volunteer work entertaining sick kids — dressed as Pogo the clown.

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There’s also Voltaire’s “Candide”; Charlie Chaplin’s capitalist critique, “Monsieur Verdoux”; Walt Kelly’s comic strip, “Pogo,” with its animalizations of Joseph McCarthy and Spiro Agnew; humorists Stan Freberg, Tom Lehrer and Beyond the Fringe; Mad magazine, the Onion, and on and on.

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