Donate SIGN UP
Home > Phrases & Sayings > po-po?

po-po?

Avatar Image
jno | 21:33 Mon 07th Feb 2005 | Phrases & Sayings
5 Answers
Anyone - probably have to be an over-50 - know what a po-po is or was, in the Guy Mitchell song 'Feet up, pat him on the po-po'? American slang for some part of the body presumably, but which? And why? Googling only suggests it's currently American slang for the police, which was presumably not what Mitchell had in mind.
prev meaning of sayings
  
next forgiven not forgotten
Gravatar

Answers

1 to 5 of 5rss feed

Avatar Image
In A Pickle
Best Answer
It seems that in German(and oddly enough Turkish too) one of the words for bottom IS po-po!
Possibly this may have come from German Immigrants to the USA?
OR are we just scraping the bottom of the barrel now?LOL
16:00 Tue 08th Feb 2005
Go To Best Answer
Avatar Image Hgrove
I think it's the bottom (I am 41).
22:36 Mon 07th Feb 2005
-- answer removed --
Avatar Image jno
Question Author

Thanks, youngsters. I've finally found a web page that seems to confirm this - www.musicweb-international.com/encyclopaedia/m/M183.HTM

...still don't know why, but In A Pickle could well be right; if police can be po-pos, why can't posteriors?

14:08 Tue 08th Feb 2005
-- answer removed --
Avatar Image jno
Question Author
aha! German! Dead right, In a Pickle - once I started googling for "der Popo" I got lots of them (many not at all respectable).
12:09 Wed 09th Feb 2005

1 to 5 of 5rss feed

Do you know the answer?

po-po?

Answer Question >>