Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | POGO Early system on G-15. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Slang | Verb. Source: Analogy relating the dance's motion to that of a pogo-stick. Definition: A type of dance where one jumps up and down rather quickly, sometimes bumping into his or her neighbor. Context: Most often used at concerts. Social Source: Punk. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
"Pogo Possum" was an opossum located in Okefenokee Swamp, who spent a great deal of time fishing from a simple, slab-sided scow. He was honest with simple homespun wisdom. Other major characters were Pogo's best friends the blustering cheerful "Albert Alligator", the superstitious "Churchy" (a turtle), the misanthopic "Porky'pine" (a porcupine), and "Howland Owl", a pedantic know-it-all. Kelly once said that the major characters were all aspects of his own personality.
Pogo debuted in 1949, and Kelly continued it through his death in 1973. Kelly's wife and his assistant tried continuing the strip for a short time after his death before retiring the strip. It was briefly revived in the 1990s. Pogo in the years when it was written and drawn by Walt Kelly was considered among the best drawn and written examples of the newspaper comic strip.
The strip often engaged in social and political satire in the guise of the adventures of the strip's funny animals. At the same time the strip used much slapstick physical humor; the same series of strips could often be enjoyed by young children and by savy adults at different levels.
Most famously, in 1953 introduced a pole cat character "Simple J. Malarkey", a characature of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pogo."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
POGO | English | Polar Orbiting Geophysical Observatory | Geography |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: POGO |
| Specialty definitions using "POGO": DNA Transposable Elements. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Sometimes trying to make a living is like climbing a mountain with a pogo stick. (Pentathlon; writing credit: William Stadiem; Bruce Malmuth) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Pogo Special Birthday Special (1969) Pogo for President: 'I Go Pogo' (1980) The Last Pogo (1978) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
References | |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Music |
|
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Pogo]. So! This is the home of Pogo -. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pogo. That's Ol' Ears, goin' over to visit Uncle Albert. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Pogo. Alabaster, do you see what I see?. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pogo. How unbarrassin'! A big-time space explorer like me gotta be strick with a li'l attached bitin' type of chile. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Pogo. What in the everlovin' world is you a-studyin', Albert?. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pogo. Phoo -- my voice is all puckered out from hollerin' "Pogo". Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Pogo. Lebbe oubba heerp!. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pogo. I hope this man from Mars is gonna appreciate this ice cream I is grindin' out for him. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Pogo. Hey! The man from Mars is took off!. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Pogo stick bouncing once. | | Jumping on a pogo stick once. |
| Pogo stick bouncing once. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "POGO" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 51.61% of the time. "POGO" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 51.61% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (proper) | 45.16% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.23% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 31 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Pogo Producing Company |
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "POGO": pogo stick. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "POGO": pogo-ing, pogo-stick. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
pogo | 49,248 | club pogo | 50 |
pogo game | 13,195 | pogo slot | 48 |
pogo com | 2,221 | pogo pin | 42 |
free pogo game | 1,084 | bridge pogo | 39 |
pogo games.com | 567 | cheat game pogo | 39 |
back door pogo | 432 | pogo euchre | 38 |
pogo game online | 298 | cribbage pogo | 35 |
pogo com game | 257 | back door pogo spade | 34 |
cheat pogo | 191 | pogo solitaire | 34 |
pogo spade | 136 | pogo product | 34 |
pogo bingo | 135 | pogo keno | 32 |
pogo poppit | 130 | free games.com pogo | 32 |
pogo stick | 111 | back door pogo.com | 30 |
pogo chess | 77 | chat game pogo | 28 |
aol pogo game | 75 | chat game pogo.com prize url win | 28 |
game by pogo | 73 | pogo video poker | 28 |
pogo pool | 71 | hammerhead pogo pool | 28 |
pogo whomp word | 69 | free pogo game online | 28 |
pogo comic | 53 | pogo game site | 27 |
back door game pogo | 51 | aol pogo | 27 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "POGO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عكاز البهلوان (pogo stick), طويل الساق (pogo stick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | échasse sauteuse (pogo stick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ホッパー車 (hobby, hobby craft, Hoffmann, homo, Homo economicus, Homo erectus, Homo habilis, Homo ludens, Homo movens, Homo sapiens, homogenize, homophony, homosexual, Honolulu, hop, hopper car, hops, hotel, photo multiplier, pogo stick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ホッ"ング (pogo stick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ogopay saltador (diver, jumper, pogo stick, saltatory, skipper, skipping rope, springer). (various references) zıp zıp (pogo stick), yaylı baston (pogo stick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "POGO": pogonia, pogonias, pogonip, pogonips, pogonophoran, pogonophorans. (additional references) | |
Words containing "POGO": carpogonia, carpogonial, carpogonium. (additional references) | |
| |
"POGO" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: boggo, Ipoto, Mpongo, ogo, Opco, Opdo, Opg, opo, Pagb, pagio, pago, pagu, Peggo, Pegi, pego, pegu, pggos, pgood, pigi, pigo, pioggia, pobo, poco, podo, pog, poga, poge, Pogey, pogg, Poggi, pogi, pogoed, pogs, Pogson, pogur, pogy, poho, pojo, Polge, Pomo, ponga, Pongo, pono, poo, poog, pooj, Poopo, pooq, Popo, poro, poto, Potok, povo, ppg, Progoda, puga, pugos, Pujo, puzo, Pygot, yogo, zogo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: goop. | |
| Words within the letters "g-o-o-p" | |
-1 letter: goo. | |
-2 letters: go, op. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-o-o-p" | |
+1 letter: goops, goopy. | |
+2 letters: apolog, gonoph, photog, pogrom, prolog. | |
+3 letters: apologs, apology, cooping, gonophs, goopier, gosport, hooping, looping, photogs, pogonia, pogonip, pogroms, polygon, poohing, pooling, pooping, prologs, prolong. | |
+4 letters: apiology, apologal, apologia, apologue, blooping, boughpot, coopting, drooping, geophone, geoponic, geoprobe, goalpost, gonopore, goopiest, gosports, gossypol, grogshop, groupoid, logotype, logotypy, odograph, omophagy, opposing, outgroup, pedology, penology, photoing, pogonias, pogonips, pogromed, polliwog, pollywog, polyglot, polygons, polygony, pomology, pooching, posology, prognose, prologed, prologue, prolonge, prolongs, proofing, prorogue, pyrology, scooping, snooping, spoofing, spooking, spooling, spooning, spooring, stooping, swooping, topology, trooping, typology, whooping, woopsing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Sounds 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Company Usage | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Abbreviations | 13. Acronyms 14. Derivations 15. Anagrams 16. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
