Definition
Small circular cardboard or plastic discs with decorative designs, typically about an inch in diameter, used in a children's game where players stack them and use a slammer to flip them over for collecting.
Example Usage
The kid's collection of holographic pogs was worth serious money at the peak of the craze in the 1990s.
Origin
Named after the juice drink 'POG' (passion fruit, orange, guava), which had cardboard discs under the pull-tab lids that children repurposed for the game in Hawaii in the late 1980s.
Fun Fact
Pogs experienced a massive boom in the early-to-mid 1990s and became one of the most significant fads of that era, with schools eventually banning them due to classroom disruption.
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