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Pog

Syllabification: (Pog)
Pronunciation: /päg, pôg/
Definition of Pog

noun

(usually Pogs)
  • a cardboard or plastic disk printed with a design or picture, used in a children’s game involving the flipping over of piles of such disks.
  • (Pogs) a game played by flipping over small cardboard or plastic disks:a group of boys playing Pogs during recess

Origin:

1990s: acronym from passion fruit, orange, guava, a trademark for a juice drink originally made by a dairy on Maui, Hawaii: the lids of the drink provided the first game disks

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