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verb (used without object)

to make a short, quick, explosive sound: The cork popped.

to burst open with such a sound, as chestnuts or corn in roasting.

to come or go quickly, suddenly, or unexpectedly: She popped into the kitchen to check the stove.

to shoot with a firearm: to pop at a mark.

to protrude from the sockets: The news made her eyes pop.

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Baseball.

to hit a pop fly (often followed by up).

to pop out.

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verb (used with object)

to cause to make a sudden, explosive sound.

to cause to burst open with such a sound.

to open suddenly or violently: to pop the hood on a car; to pop the tab on a beer can.

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to put or thrust quickly, suddenly, or unexpectedly: He popped the muffins into the oven.

11.

Informal. to cause to fire; discharge: He popped his rifle at the bird.

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12.

to shoot (usually followed by at, off, etc.): He popped off bottles with a slingshot.

13.

British Slang. to pawn.

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Informal.

to take or swallow (pills), especially in excess or habitually; take orally in a compulsive or addictive way: Popping all those pills will land him in the hospital.

to eat in a continual or thoughtless manner, as snack foods: popping peanuts at the movies.

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to steal or take dishonestly (money, esp. public funds, or property entrusted to one's care); embezzle.

to chew (food) slowly and thoroughly.

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noun

15.

a short, quick, explosive sound.

16.

a popping.

17.

a shot with a firearm.

18.

Informal. soda pop.

19.

a drink or portion of an alcoholic beverage, as a drink of whiskey or a glass of beer: We had a couple of pops on the way home.

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Baseball. pop fly.

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adverb

21.

with an explosive sound: The balloon went pop.

22.

quickly, suddenly, or unexpectedly: Pop, the door flew open!

adjective

23.

Informal. unexpected; without prior warning or announcement: The teacher gave us a pop quiz.

Verb phrases

24.

pop for, Slang. to pay or buy for oneself or another, especially as a gift or treat; spring for: I'll pop for the first round of drinks.

25.

pop off, Informal.

to die, especially suddenly.

to depart, especially abruptly.

to express oneself volubly or excitedly and sometimes irately or indiscreetly: He popped off about the injustice of the verdict.

26.

pop out, Baseball. to be put out by hitting a pop fly caught on the fly by a player on the opposing team.

27.

pop up, Baseball. to hit a pop fly.

Idioms

28.

a pop, Slang. each; apiece: five orchids at $30 a pop.

29.

pop in, Informal. to visit briefly and unexpectedly; stop in; drop by: Maybe we'll pop in after the movie.

30.

pop the question, Informal. to propose marriage: They dated for two years before he popped the question.

Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English (noun) poppe a blow; (v.) poppen to strike; of expressive orig.

Synonyms
3. appear, burst.

Regional variation note
18. See soda pop.

Example Sentences

Neutrinos are achieving a sort of pop culture fame.

Finally, a thread that's not devoted to whining and pop culture.

Given these downside risks, the recent pop in house prices will probably fizzle.

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Neutrinos are achieving a sort of pop culture fame.

Finally, a thread that's not devoted to whining and pop culture.

Given these downside risks, the recent pop in house prices will probably fizzle.

Twirl the pop and gently tap the lollipop stick on the side of the pan to remove excess melt.

How many scientists, artists, intellectuals and writers have offended the pop notions of their day and been condemned or worse.

They pop up again when you release two toggle-and-loop closures.

Three of pop music's shining stars are toiling in courtrooms on either side of the pond today.

Synthesizers, computers, and the latest microchip technology have recently given pop musicians some versatile new toys.

There is, of course, the dreaded pop quiz way of making students read.

Musically speaking, there is a wealth of indigenous folkloric music, but no true homegrown pop music.

Pop psych lore is a bewildering mix of fact and fallacy.

Just pop the handle free and slide the fruit from the corer's stem.

Flashbulbs pop as photographers zero in on the party's notables.

It was also a powerful vehicle for introducing local ethnic traditions into an emerging national pop music.

Neurolinguistic programming has become a favored pop psychology technique because it is easy to follow.

Pop the whole clump out of the ground with a shovel or spading fork.

Our language must literally pop off the computer monitor.

Inspiration often seems to pop up unpredictably-in the shower, on a long walk or even at the grocery store.

To brighten your home this spring, pop a pretty plant in a green glazed container.

He finds dazzling sentences popping out of pop culture too.

It gets mom and pop out of the oil drilling business, and that is a good thing.

In the bathroom, blue tile and colorful accessories pop against an all white interior.

Those remain, he said, especially because new gossip sites are bound to pop up.

Wilson was a member, left the group and then added some pop psychology.

Just pop it into the ground or a large pot and watch it race to the sky.

Top onions with sausages and pop them into the oven, then drop the potatoes into the boiling water.

Pop tea lights or votives into the jars, light the candles, and enjoy the glow.

Then reduce heat so bubbles that form on pan bottom only pop to the surface occasionally.

In spring, naturalized yellow trumpet daffodils pop up around the meadow's edges.

To pop plants from cell-packs, push up on the bottom of each cell.

Click on any address and photos and descriptions pop up.

Pop the ripe fruits in your mouth fresh off the plant.

High-culture up-and-comers were embracing pop imagery and tropes with a.

Consider all the pundits, professors, and pop critics who have.

Savvy, satirical and fluent in pop culture, this voice also uses self-deprecation to inoculate against criticism.

Two-eyed stereoscopic viewers pop microscopic beasties into three dimensions.

Their live performances feature a fusion of pop and jazz that is filled with high energy, spontaneity and fun.

Now his over-the-top sound is snaking its way into pop music.

Pop stars have kept photojournalists in check for a long time now.

You'll see the equation editor pop up, giving you a blank slate in which to add your equations.

The shadow chancellor means it when he says he would have preferred a pop career with one of the bands he joined as a youth.

The setting was humble, and there were no international filmmakers or foreign pop stars on hand.

One suggestion that does pop up from time to time is that the process which leads to autism involves faulty mitochondria.

TV-driven music has a strong sales week with a number of small-screen numbers ruling the pop charts.

Over the weeks, students pop in and out as jobs come and.

Some commentators are predicting that business education will be the next bubble to go pop.

Solar-powered charging stations are beginning to pop up now.

Some people sneer at connecting philosophy and pop culture.

But such expeditions are expensive-a million dollars a pop is not untypical-and archaeology is not a well-resourced profession.

Now pop one of the jellybeans into your mouth and chew, without letting go of your nose.

And nearly half of them use their phones to call friends to warn them of pop quizzes.

Scientists also hope to target drugs to particular pathologies as they pop up in the brain.

But being a smoking hot rock or pop star may be even more dangerous.

Here, white decorative pieces pop against a fire-engine red background.

For those folks who have posted their philosophy somewhere, they will likely pop up, and will give you some ideas.

However, if you pop the following ingredients into a.

By manipulating a human embryo that ancestor would pop out.

The arts are conflated with pop culture and seen as a luxury, she said.

For instance, toddlers learned how to pop open a container by watching the experimenter and then copying her.

The paper breaks down within a few months and it's easy to hand weed any stragglers that dare to pop through.

Put them in the ground now or pop their nursery cans into larger containers for instant holiday displays for porch or deck.

So my wife bravely grabbed the offending tooth and gave it a good pop.

So researchers took a closer look at how people who pop health pills actually behave.

She's painted some of them tropical colors to add a little pop to her mostly green garden.

But the term has made its way into the language of pop psychology and into our popular culture.

People have been hurt by these on-air psycho pop stars.

The blank canvas of the white wall allows the dishes to pop without competing for attention, but a colored wall works too.

Like the flashbulbs of paparazzi, gamma-ray bursts pop off all the time in the universe, about one a day.

But remember the element of surprise by choosing any wall or ceiling for a specialty finish or pop of color.

Come late winter, white narcissus pop up through the garden, and by spring the garden is in its full glory.

Plant torch lily beside a red cordyline to make its orange flower clusters really pop.

The plants have been grown and are ready to pop in.

They pop up all over the place from the seeds that make it to my compost.

Desite the name, they bear no relation to the weeds that pop up in your lawn--other than a similarity in leaf shape.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

adjective

of or pertaining to popular songs: pop music; pop singers.

of or pertaining to pop art.

reflecting or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people: pop culture; pop novels.

noun

popular music: It's the first time she's sung pop.

pop art.

Origin:
1860–65; shortening of popular

noun Informal.

father.

Origin:
1820–30; short form of poppa

noun

a frozen ice or ice-cream confection on a stick.

Origin:
probably shortening of Popsicle

noun

Charles Dud·ley

[duhd-lee] , 1829–1900, U.S. editor and essayist.

Glenn Sco·bey

[skoh-bee] , (“Pop”), 1871–1954, U.S. football coach.

Harry Morris, 1881–1958, U.S. filmmaker, born in Poland: one of the Warner Brothers.

Jack L(eonard), 1892–1978, U.S. film producer, born in Canada.

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World English Dictionary

pop¹ (pɒp)

—vb , pops, popping, popped
1.	to make or cause to make a light sharp explosive sound
2.	to burst open or cause to burst open with such a sound
3.	informal (intr; often foll by in, out, etc) to come (to) or go (from) rapidly or suddenly; to pay a brief or unexpected visit (to)
4.	(intr) (esp of the eyes) to protrude: her eyes popped with amazement
5.	to shoot or fire at (a target) with a firearm
6.	(tr) to place or put with a sudden movement: she popped some tablets into her mouth
7.	informal (tr) to pawn: he popped his watch yesterday
8.	slang (tr) to take (a drug) in pill form or as an injection: pill popping
9.	pop one's clogs See clog
10.	informal pop the question to propose marriage

—n
11.	a light sharp explosive sound; crack
12.	informal a flavoured nonalcoholic carbonated beverage
13.	informal a try; attempt: have a pop at goal
14.	informal an instance of criticism: Townsend has had a pop at modern bands
15.	informal a pop each: 30 million shares at 7 dollars a pop

—*adv*
16.	with a popping sound

—*interj*
17.	an exclamation denoting a sharp explosive sound

[C14: of imitative origin]

pop² (pɒp)

—n
1.	a. music of general appeal, esp among young people, that originated as a distinctive genre in the 1950s. It is generally characterized by a strong rhythmic element and the use of electrical amplification
	b. (as modifier): pop music; a pop record; a pop group
2.	informal a piece of popular or light classical music

—*adj*
3.	informal short for popular

pop³ (pɒp)

—n
1.	an informal word for father
2.	informal a name used in addressing an old or middle-aged man

POP

—*abbreviation for*
1.	point of presence: a device that enables access to the internet
2.	internet post office protocol: a protocol which brings e-mail to and from a mail server
3.	Post Office Preferred (size of envelopes, etc)
4.	persistent organic pollutant

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Word Origin & History

pop

"a hit with an explosive sound," c.1400, of imitative origin. Verb sense of "to cause to make a sudden explosive sound" is attested from 1595; sense of "to appear or put suddenly" (often with up, off, in, etc.) is recorded from 1443, from the noun. Meaning "flavored carbonated beverage" is from 1812.

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"A new manufactory of a nectar, between soda-water and ginger-beer, and called pop, because pop goes the cork when it is drawn." [Southey, letter, 1812]

Baseball sense of "to hit a ball high in the air" is from 1867. Sense of "ice cream on a stick" is from 1923 (see popsicle). To pop the question is from 1725, specific sense of "propose marriage" is from 1826. Popcorn is first attested 1819. Pop-eyed "having bulging eyes" is recorded from 1820. Pop-gun as a type of child's toy is from 1622. Pop-over "light cake" is from 1876. Pop goes the weasel, a country dance, was popular 1850s at court balls, etc.

pop

"having popular appeal," 1926, of individual songs from many genres; 1954 as a genre of its own; abbreviation of popular (q.v.), earlier as a shortened form of popular concert (1862), often in the plural form pops. Pop art first recorded 1957, said to have been in use conversationally among Independent

group of artists from late 1954.

pop

"father," 1838, chiefly Amer.Eng., shortened from papa (1681), from Fr. papa, from O.Fr., a children's word, similar to L. pappa. Form poppa is recorded from 1897.

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Slang Dictionary

pop definition

tv.
to hit or strike someone. : She popped him lightly on the shoulder.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Computing Dictionary

POP definition

1. A family of programming languages, POP-1, POP-2, POP-10, Pop-11, POP++, POP-9X, POPLOG.
2. Post Office Protocol.
See also pop, PoP.
[Jargon File]
(1996-02-18)

PoP definition

Point Of Presence

pop definition

programming
To remove something from the top of a stack.
Opposite of push.
(Not to be confused with Post Office Protocol or POP-1 the language).
[Jargon File]
(1996-02-18)

American Heritage

Abbreviations & Acronyms

pop
popular

PoP
point of presence

POP