pogo stick
5
4.6
- noun
- /ˈpoʊɡoʊ stɪk/
:
pogo
- After practicing for weeks, she finally mastered how to do tricks on her pogo stick.
- pogo stick hopping
- pogo stick bounce
- Get off your pogo stick
Examples
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The children laughed and cheered as they took turns jumping on the pogo stick in the park.
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I thought it was a pogo stick.
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Looking to get back up on that pogo stick.
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If I have to travel by pogo stick.
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A typical pogo stick will only raise the rider a foot off the ground.
Blog text (18) -
Stump reaches for a beat-up pogo stick that leans against the wall in his office.
Fiction book (1994) -
She goes wide-eyed as she sees her pogo stick standing straight up in the cracked asphalt!
Fiction book (1990) -
While they talk, Nancy's daughter, Mindy (9), comes bouncing along on her pogo stick, listening to her Walkman and slowly circling the truck.
Fiction book (1990) -
He used the pogo stick to bounce over the obstacles in the backyard.
Surface Forms
Morphology
pogo + stick
The first element 'pogo' has no transparent lexical meaning here, and while 'stick' signals a rod-like object, that alone does not allow a learner to infer the specific spring-mounted jumping-toy function. The compound is lexicalized and historically arbitrary, so a B1 learner who only knows the constituent words would not reliably derive the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Pogo stick is named for the way it makes you jump: the pole, the stick, has a strong spring so you bounce up and down. One popular story says people heard the bouncing sound as 'pogo', so the name stuck and today it means the toy used for jumping.