pop
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (UK, Canada) enPR: pŏp, IPA(key): /pɒp/
- (US) enPR: pŏp, IPA(key): /pɑp/
Audio (CA) (file) Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒp
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)
- (countable) A loud, sharp sound as of a cork coming out of a bottle.
- Listen to the pop of a champagne cork.
- (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.
- (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.
- A pop shot: a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm.
- The man with the gun took a pop at the rabbit.
- (colloquial, in the phrase "a pop") A quantity dispensed, a portion, apiece.
- They cost 50 pence a pop.
- 2008 January–February, Matt Bean, “Your cultural calendar: 7 things to look forward to this year”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, ISSN 1054-4836, page 134:
- British rockers Radiohead solved the "music is dead" dispute last year by allowing fans to name a price for the group's new album, In Rainbows. (More than a million albums sold in the first week alone, at an average $8 a pop).
- Something that stands out or is distinctive, especially to the senses.
- a white dress with a pop of red
- a pop of vanilla flavour
- (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.
- A bird, the European redwing.
- (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.
- (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)
- (intransitive) To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound.
- The muskets popped away on all sides.
- (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.
- (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.
- 1599-1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, v 2 65
- He that hath . . ./ Popp'd in between the election and my hopes.
- 1712 January 21, Joseph Addison; Richard Steele, “THURSDAY, January 10, 1711–1712 [Julian calendar]”, in The Spectator, number 271; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697:
- I startled at his popping upon me unexpectedly.
- 1626, John Donne, "On the Nativity", Sermons, iv
- So, diving in a bottomless sea, they [the Roman Church] pop sometimes above water to take breath.
- 1720, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Young Clergyman
- others again have a trick of popping up and down every moment from their paper, to the audience, like an idle schoolboy
- 1773, 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.
- (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.
- (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.
- (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.
- (transitive) To hit (something or someone).
- He popped me on the nose.
- (transitive, slang) To shoot (usually somebody) with a firearm.
- (intransitive, vulgar) To ejaculate.
- (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.
- 2010, Enrico Perla, Massimiliano Oldani, A Guide to Kernel Exploitation: Attacking the Core (page 55)
- (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).
- 2011, John Mongan, Noah Kindler, Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed
- (transitive, slang) To pawn (something) (to raise money).
- I had to pop my watch to see me through until pay-day.
- (transitive, slang) To swallow or consume (especially a tablet of a drug, sometimes extended to other small items such as sweets or candy).
- 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.
- 2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, ISSN 1054-4836, page 135:
- 31 pop some chocolate You'll stay sharp and focused for that final lunge toward the weekend. Milk chocolate has been shown to boost verbal and visual memory, impulse control, and reaction time.
- 1994, Ruth Garner and Patricia A. Alexander, Beliefs about text and instruction with text:
- (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...
- 1995, David Brin, Startide Rising:
- (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
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InterjectionEdit
pop
TranslationsEdit
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
pop (plural pops)
- (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)
- (used attributively in set phrases) Popular.
NounEdit
pop (uncountable)
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
Etymology 4Edit
From colloquial Russian поп (pop) and Попъ (Pop), from Old Church Slavonic попъ (popŭ), from Byzantine Greek (see pope). Doublet of pope.
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
pop (plural pops)
- (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.
- 1822, Mikhaïlov Vasiliï, Adventures of Michailow, 4
AnagramsEdit
AfrikaansEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
pop (plural poppe)
CatalanEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Latin polypus, from Ancient Greek πολύπους (polúpous).
NounEdit
pop m (plural pops)
Alternative formsEdit
See alsoEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Abbreviation of popular.
AdjectiveEdit
pop (indeclinable)
Further readingEdit
- “pop” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “pop” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “pop” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “pop” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle Dutch poppe, from Latin pupa; sense of “coccon, pupa” from New Latin. The sense “guilder” derived from student slang as a reference to the image of the Dutch Maiden on guilders from 1694 until the early nineteenth century.
NounEdit
pop f (plural poppen, diminutive popje n or poppetje n)
- cocoon, pupa
- Synonym: cocon
- doll
- Synonym: poppemie (Belgium)
- As a term for a girl or woman:
- (often diminutive) A term of endearment: darling, sweetheart.
- A pretty girl or young woman.
- Synonym: poppemie (Belgium)
- (often derogatory) A girl or woman who wears a lot of make-up.
- Synonym: poppemie (Belgium)
- (Netherlands, colloquial) guilder
- Synonym: gulden
Derived termsEdit
- babypop
- etalagepop
- handpop
- hofpop
- kloddenpop
- lappenpop
- ledenpop
- modepop
- paspop
- plaspop
- poppemie
- poppenhoek
- poppenhuis
- poppenkast
- poppenmaker
- poppenmoeder
- poppenspel
- poppenspeler
- poppenstoel
- poppenstront
- poppentheater
- poppenvoorstelling
- poppenwagen
- sneeuwpop
- sokpop
- speculaaspop
- stropop
- taaitaaipop
- trekpop
- vingerpop
- voddenpop
- wajangpop
VerbEdit
pop
DescendantsEdit
- → Indonesian: pop
Etymology 2Edit
From English pop, possibly through shortening of popmuziek.
NounEdit
pop f (uncountable)
Derived termsEdit
FinnishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- poppi (noun only)
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
pop (not comparable)
- (chiefly in compounds) pop (popular)
NounEdit
pop
- pop (popular music)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of pop (type risti)
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Inflection of pop (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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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 |
Possessive forms of pop (type risti) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | popini | popimme |
2nd person | popisi | popinne |
3rd person | popinsa |
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
AdjectiveEdit
pop (feminine singular pope, masculine plural pops, feminine plural popes)
- pop (popular)
NounEdit
pop m (plural pop)
SynonymsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “pop” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
HungarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pop (plural popok)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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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 |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
popé | popoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
popéi | popokéi |
Possessive forms of pop | ||
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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
- ^ 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
IndonesianEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
AdjectiveEdit
pop (plural pop-pop)
Etymology 2Edit
From Dutch pop, from New Latin pupa. Doublet of pupa and popi
NounEdit
pop (plural, first-person possessive popku, second-person possessive popmu, third-person possessive popnya)
- (colloquial) doll.
- Synonym: boneka
Further readingEdit
- “pop” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
JakaltekEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Mayan *pohp.
NounEdit
pop
ReferencesEdit
- Church, Clarence; Church, Katherine (1955) Vocabulario castellano-jacalteco, jacalteco-castellano[2] (in Spanish), Guatemala C. A.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 47; 41
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ParticleEdit
pop
PolishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
pop m inan
DeclensionEdit
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
pop m pers
DeclensionEdit
PortugueseEdit
NounEdit
pop m (uncountable)
- 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)
- priest (usually Catholic or Orthodox)
DeclensionEdit
SlavomolisanoEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Serbo-Croatian pop.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pop m
DeclensionEdit
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)., pp. 395
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)
- priest (usually Catholic or Orthodox)
DeclensionEdit
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
pop m (genitive singular popu, declension pattern of dub)
DeclensionEdit
Further readingEdit
- pop in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk
SpanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pop m (plural pops)
- (Uruguay) popcorn
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:palomita
- pop, pop music
Derived termsEdit
Tok PisinEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
pop
TurkishEdit
NounEdit
pop (definite accusative popu, plural poplar)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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VolapükEdit
NounEdit
pop (nominative plural pops)
DeclensionEdit
SynonymsEdit
- pöp (Volapük Nulik)
Derived termsEdit
West FrisianEdit
EtymologyEdit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pop c (plural poppen, diminutive popke)
Further readingEdit
- “pop”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011