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pop

See also: Pop, POP, and pöp

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EnglishEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English pop, poppe (“a blow; strike; buffet”) (> Middle English poppen (“to strike; thrust”, verb)), of onomatopoeic origin – used to describe the sound, or short, sharp actions. The physics sense is part of a facetious sequence "snap, crackle, pop", after the mascots of Rice Krispies cereal.

NounEdit

pop (countable and uncountable, plural pops)

  1. (countable) A loud, sharp sound as of a cork coming out of a bottle.
    Listen to the pop of a champagne cork.
  2. (uncountable, regional, Midwestern US, Canada, Britain) An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.
    Lunch was sandwiches and a bottle of pop.
    • 1941, LIFE magazine, 8 September 1941, page 27:
      The best thing on the table was a tray full of bottles of lemon pop.
  3. (countable, regional, Midwestern US, Canada) A bottle, can, or serving of effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.
    Go in the store and buy us three pops.
  4. A pop shot: a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm.
    The man with the gun took a pop at the rabbit.
  5. (colloquial, in the phrase "a pop") A quantity dispensed, a portion, apiece.
    They cost 50 pence a pop.
  6. Something that stands out or is distinctive, especially to the senses.
    a white dress with a pop of red
    a pop of vanilla flavour
  7. (computing) The removal of a data item from the top of a stack.
    • 2011, Mark Lutz, Programming Python, page 1371:
      Pushes and pops change the stack; indexing just accesses it.
  8. A bird, the European redwing.
  9. (physics) The sixth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, jounce, crackle), i.e. the rate of change of crackle.
  10. (slang, dated) A pistol.

SynonymsEdit

  • (soda pop): see the list at soda
Derived termsEdit
(see below, for Etymology 1)
TranslationsEdit

VerbEdit

pop (third-person singular simple present pops, present participle popping, simple past and past participle popped)

  1. (intransitive) To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound.
    The muskets popped away on all sides.
  2. (ergative) To burst (something) with a popping sound.
    The boy with the pin popped the balloon.
    This corn pops well.
    • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, chapter 1:
      The waves came round her. She was a rock. She was covered with the seaweed which pops when it is pressed. He was lost.
    • 2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian‎[1]:
      The court was told Robins had asked if she could use the oven to heat some baby food for her child. Knutton heard a loud popping noise "like a crisp packet being popped" coming from the kitchen followed by a "screeching" noise. When she saw what had happened to the kitten she was sick in the sink.
  3. (intransitive, with in, out, upon, etc.) To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart.
    A rabbit popped out of the hole.
    • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare, Hamlet, v 2 65
      He that hath . . ./ Popp'd in between the election and my hopes.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Addison
      I startled at his popping upon me unexpectedly.
    • (Can we date this quote?) John Donne, Sermons, iv
      So, diving in a bottomless sea, they [the Roman Church] pop sometimes above water to take breath.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Jonathan Swift
      Others have a trick of popping up and down every moment from their paper to the audience, like an idle school-boy.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, ii
      When company comes, you are not to pop out and stare, and then run in again, like frightened rabbits in a warren.
    • 1989, Clifford Stoll, The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
      Lee Cheng popped on the phone line. "Right. I'm tracing it." More keytaps, this time with a few beeps thrown in.
  4. (transitive, Britain) To place (something) (somewhere); to move or position (something) with a short movement.
    Just pop it in the fridge for now.
    He popped his head around the door.
  5. (intransitive, Britain, Canada, often with over, round, along, etc.) To make a short trip or visit.
    I'm just popping round to the newsagent.
    I'll pop by your place later today.
  6. (intransitive) To stand out; to be distinctive to the senses.
    This colour really pops.
    • 2011 July 18, Robert Costa, “The Battle from Waterloo: Representative Bachmann runs for president”, in National Review:
      She also looked like a star - and not the Beltway type. On a stage full of stiff suits, she popped.
  7. (transitive) To hit (something or someone).
    He popped me on the nose.
  8. (transitive, slang) To shoot (usually somebody) with a firearm.
  9. (intransitive, vulgar) To ejaculate.
  10. (transitive, computing) To remove (a data item) from the top of a stack.
    • 2010, Enrico Perla, ‎Massimiliano Oldani, A Guide to Kernel Exploitation: Attacking the Core (page 55)
      Once the callee (the called function) terminates, it cleans the stack that it has been locally using and pops the next value stored on top of the stack.
  11. (transitive, computing) To remove a data item from the top of (a stack).
    • 2011, John Mongan, ‎Noah Kindler, ‎Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed
      The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).
  12. (transitive, slang) To pawn (something) (to raise money).
    I had to pop my watch to see me through until pay-day.
  13. (transitive, slang) To swallow (a tablet of a drug).
    • 1994, Ruth Garner and Patricia A. Alexander, Beliefs about text and instruction with text:
      We were drinking beer and popping pills — some really strong downers. I could hardly walk and I had no idea what I was saying.
  14. (transitive, informal) To perform (a move or stunt) while riding a board or vehicle.
    • 1995, David Brin, Startide Rising:
      Huck spun along the beams and joists, making me gulp when she popped a wheelie or swerved past a gaping hole...
    • 2009, Ben Wixon, Skateboarding: Instruction, Programming, and Park Design:
      The tail is the back of the deck; this is the part that enables skaters to pop ollies...
  15. (intransitive, of the ears) To undergo equalization of pressure when the Eustachian tubes open.
    My ears popped as the aeroplane began to ascend.
Derived termsEdit
(see below, for Etymology 1)
TranslationsEdit
to hit — see hit
to ejaculate — see ejaculate

InterjectionEdit

pop

  1. Used to represent a loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle.
TranslationsEdit

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from pop (Etymology 1, all parts of speech)

Etymology 2Edit

From papa or poppa.

NounEdit

pop (plural pops)

  1. (colloquial) Affectionate form of father.
    My pop used to tell me to do my homework every night.
TranslationsEdit
See alsoEdit

Etymology 3Edit

From popular, by shortening.

AdjectiveEdit

pop (not comparable)

  1. (used attributively in set phrases) Popular.

NounEdit

pop (uncountable)

  1. Pop music.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit

Etymology 4Edit

From colloquial Russian поп (pop) and Попъ (Pop), from Old Church Slavonic попъ (popŭ), from Byzantine Greek (see pope).

Alternative formsEdit

NounEdit

pop (plural pops)

  1. (Russian Orthodoxy, uncommon) A Russian Orthodox priest; a parson.
    • 1822, Mikhaïlov Vasiliï, Adventures of Michailow, 4
      There was at that time in the house of the Consul a Pop (or Russian Priest) named Iwan Afanassich.
    • 2001, Spas Raïkin, Rebel with a Just Cause, 292 n.28
      The contemporary priest's... own children are ashamed and some abusers are openly "transmitting the pop" (a gesture of mocking the priest on the street, where a man would touch his private parts while smiling at other passers-by)
    • 2006, Peter Neville, A Traveller's History of Russia, 123
      By the end of 1809 she was declaring to all and sundry that she would sooner marry 'a pop than the sovereign of a country under the influence of France'. Since a pop was a Russian Orthodox parish priest, the reference was hardly likely to endear her family to the French.

AnagramsEdit

AfrikaansEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Dutch pop.

NounEdit

pop (plural poppe)

  1. doll

CatalanEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Latin polypus, from Ancient Greek πολύπους (polúpous).

NounEdit

pop m (plural pops)

  1. octopus
Alternative formsEdit
See alsoEdit

Etymology 2Edit

Abbreviation of popular.

AdjectiveEdit

pop (invariable)

  1. popular

Further readingEdit

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from Latin pupa; sense of "coccon, pupa" from New Latin.

NounEdit

pop f or m (plural poppen, diminutive popje n or poppetje n)

  1. doll
  2. cocoon, pupa
  3. (colloquial) guilder
Derived termsEdit

VerbEdit

pop

  1. first-person singular present indicative of poppen
  2. imperative of poppen

Etymology 2Edit

From English pop, possibly through shortening of popmuziek.

NounEdit

pop f (uncountable)

  1. pop, pop music

FinnishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

AdverbEdit

pop (not comparable)

  1. pop (popular)

NounEdit

pop

  1. pop (popular music)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of pop (type risti)
singular plural
nominative pop popit
genitive popin poppien
partitive poppia poppia
accusative pop
popin 		popit
inessive popissa popeissa
elative popista popeista
illative poppiin poppeihin
adessive popilla popeilla
ablative popilta popeilta
allative popille popeille
essive poppina poppeina
translative popiksi popeiksi
instructive – popein
abessive popitta popeitta
comitative – poppeineen
Inflection of pop (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative pop popit
genitive popin popien
partitive popia popeja
illative popiin popeihin
singular plural
nominative pop popit
accusative nom. pop popit
gen. popin
genitive popin popien
partitive popia popeja
inessive popissa popeissa
elative popista popeista
illative popiin popeihin
adessive popilla popeilla
ablative popilta popeilta
allative popille popeille
essive popina popeina
translative popiksi popeiksi
instructive — popein
abessive popitta popeitta
comitative — popeineen

FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

pop (feminine singular pope, masculine plural pops, feminine plural popes)

  1. pop (popular)

NounEdit

pop m (plural pop)

  1. pop, pop music

SynonymsEdit

Further readingEdit

HungarianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English pop(ular).[1]

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pop (plural popok)

  1. (music) pop, pop music

DeclensionEdit

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative pop popok
accusative popot popokat
dative popnak popoknak
instrumental poppal popokkal
causal-final popért popokért
translative poppá popokká
terminative popig popokig
essive-formal popként popokként
essive-modal — —
inessive popban popokban
superessive popon popokon
adessive popnál popoknál
illative popba popokba
sublative popra popokra
allative pophoz popokhoz
elative popból popokból
delative popról popokról
ablative poptól popoktól
Possessive forms of pop
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. popom popjaim
2nd person sing. popod popjaid
3rd person sing. popja popjai
1st person plural popunk popjaink
2nd person plural popotok popjaitok
3rd person plural popjuk popjaik

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

JakaltekEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Mayan *pohp.

NounEdit

pop

  1. reed mat

ReferencesEdit

  • Church, Clarence; Church, Katherine (1955) Vocabulario castellano-jacalteco, jacalteco-castellano‎[2] (in Spanish), Guatemala C. A.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 47; 41

NavajoEdit

ParticleEdit

pop

  1. flirting
    Shichʼįʼ nił pop!
    You’re flirting with me!

PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pop m inan

  1. pop music

DeclensionEdit

declension of pop
singular
nominative pop
genitive popu
dative popowi
accusative pop
instrumental popem
locative popie
vocative popie

NounEdit

pop m pers

  1. Eastern Orthodox priest

DeclensionEdit

declension of pop
singular plural
nominative pop popowie
genitive popa popów
dative popowi popom
accusative popa popów
instrumental popem popami
locative popie popach
vocative popie popowie

PortugueseEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pop m (uncountable)

  1. pop (music intended for or accepted by a wide audience)

Serbo-CroatianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Church Slavonic попъ (popŭ), from Ancient Greek παπάς (papás), variant of πάππας (páppas, “daddy, papa”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pȍp m (Cyrillic spelling по̏п)

  1. priest (usually Catholic or Orthodox)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of pop
singular plural
nominative pop popovi
genitive popa popova
dative popu popovima
accusative popa popove
vocative pope popovi
locative popu popovima
instrumental popom popovima

SlavomolisanoEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Serbo-Croatian pop.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pop m

  1. priest

DeclensionEdit

    declension of pop
singular plural
nominative pop pope
genitive popa popi, pop
dative popu popi, popami
accusative pop, popa pope
locative popu pope
instrumental popom, popam popi, popami

ReferencesEdit

  • Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale).

SlovakEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Church Slavonic попъ (popŭ), from Ancient Greek παπάς (papás), variant of πάππας (páppas, “daddy, papa”).

NounEdit

pop m (genitive singular popa, nominative plural popi, declension pattern of chlap)

  1. priest (usually Catholic or Orthodox)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of pop
singular plural
nominative pop popi
genitive popa popov
dative popovi popom
accusative popa popov
locative popovi popoch
instrumental popom popmi

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from English pop.

NounEdit

pop m (genitive singular popu, declension pattern of dub)

  1. pop music, pop
DeclensionEdit
Declension of pop
singulare tantum
nominative pop
genitive popu
dative popu
accusative pop
locative pope
instrumental popom

Further readingEdit

  • pop in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

SpanishEdit

NounEdit

pop m (plural pops)

  1. (Uruguay) popcorn
  2. pop, pop music

SynonymsEdit

(popcorn):

Tok PisinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English Pope.

NounEdit

pop

  1. Pope

TurkishEdit

NounEdit

pop (definite accusative popu, plural poplar)

  1. pop
  2. Pop music

DeclensionEdit

Inflection
Nominative pop
Definite accusative popu
Singular Plural
Nominative pop poplar
Definite accusative popu popları
Dative popa poplara
Locative popta poplarda
Ablative poptan poplardan
Genitive popun popların
Possessive forms
Singular Plural
1st singular popum poplarım
2nd singular popun popların
3rd singular popu popları
1st plural popumuz poplarımız
2nd plural popunuz poplarınız
3rd plural popları popları

VolapükEdit

NounEdit

pop (nominative plural pops)

  1. (obsolete, Volapük Rigik) people, nation

DeclensionEdit

declension of pop
singular plural
nominative pop pops
genitive popa popas
dative pope popes
accusative popi popis
vocative 1 o pop! o pops!
predicative 2 popu popus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

SynonymsEdit

  • pöp (Volapük Nulik)

Derived termsEdit

West FrisianEdit

EtymologyEdit

(This etymology is missing. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pop c (plural poppen, diminutive popke)

  1. baby
  2. doll, dummy, puppet
  3. dear, darling

Further readingEdit

  • “pop”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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