pop

See also: Pop, POP, and pöp

Contents

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, Canada) enPR: pŏp, IPA^(key): /pɒp/
• (US) enPR: pŏp, IPA^(key): /pɑp/

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

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. Shortened from pop shot: a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm. Possibly confusion, by assonance, with pot as in pot shot.

   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.

Synonyms

• (soda pop): see the list at soda

Derived terms

(see below, for Etymology 1)

Translations

loud, sharp sound

• Dutch: plop (nl)
• Finnish: poksahdus (fi)
• Portuguese: alto (pt) m

• Russian: хлопо́к (ru) m (xlopók)
• Swedish: poff

soda pop

• Finnish: limsa (fi), limu (fi), limppari (fi)
• Russian: газиро́вка (ru) f (gaziróvka), лимона́д (ru) f (limonád)

• Swedish: läsk (sv)

Verb

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.

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     He popped a paper into his hand.

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 terms

(see below, for Etymology 1)

Translations

to make a sharp quick sound

• Galician: estalar (gl), estoupar, estourar (gl)

• Maori: pāhūhū, pakō, pakū

to burst something

• Finnish: poksauttaa
• Galician: estalar (gl), estoupar, estourar (gl)

• Maori: whakapāhūhū
• Russian: ло́паться (ru) impf (lópatʹsja), ло́пнуть (ru) pf (lópnutʹ) (intransitive), (clap) хло́пать (ru) (xlópatʹ), хло́пнуть (ru) (xlópnutʹ) (transitive)

to enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement

to place something somewhere

• Finnish: tyrkätä (fi)

• Russian: сова́ть (ru) impf (sovátʹ), су́нуть (ru) pf (súnutʹ)

to hit — see hit

to ejaculate — see ejaculate

computing: to remove a data item from the top of a stack

slang: to swallow

• Finnish: nappailla (fi)

to perform a move while riding a board or vehicle

• Finnish: vetäistä

to undergo equalization of pressure when the Eustachian tubes open

• Russian: закладывать (ru) (zakladyvatʹ), заложить (ru) (založitʹ)

• Swedish: slå lock (sv)

Interjection

pop

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

Translations

sound

• Romanian: poc (ro)
• Russian: хлоп (ru) m (xlop), хлопо́к (ru) m (xlopók)

• Spanish: pop (es)

Derived terms

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

• corporation pop
• pop a cap in someone's ass
• popcorn
• pop fastener
• pop gun, popgun
• pop in
• pop on
• pop off

• pop one's clogs
• pop one's cork
• pop out
• popping crease
• pop shot
• pop someone's cherry
• Pop Tart
• pop the question

• pop up
• pop-up, popup
• pop over, pop round, pop around
• popper
• soda pop
• wobbly pop

Etymology 2

From papa or poppa.

Noun

pop (plural pops)

1. (colloquial) Affectionate form of father.

   My pop used to tell me to do my homework every night.

Translations

affectionate form of father

• Catalan: papi (ca), papa (ca) m
• Dutch: pap (nl)
• Russian: па́па (ru) m (pápa), па́почка (ru) m (pápočka), папа́ша (ru) m (papáša)

• Spanish: papi (es) m
• Swedish: paps (sv)
• Volapük: fatül (vo)

See also

• papa, pa
• pap, paps

Etymology 3

From popular, by shortening.

Adjective

pop (not comparable)

1. (used attributively in set phrases) Popular.

Noun

pop (uncountable)

1. Pop music.

Derived terms

• Britpop
• pop art
• pop culture
• pop group
• pop music
• pop musician
• pop star
• popster
• vox pop

 

Translations

pop music

• Arabic: بُوب‎ m (būb)
• Armenian: պոպ (hy) (pop)
• Esperanto: popo
• Faroese: popptónleikur m, poppur m
• Finnish: pop (fi), poppi
• French: pop (fr) f

• Greek: ποπ (el) f (pop)
• Japanese: ポップ (poppu), ポップス (poppusu)
• Maori: arotini, puoro arotini
• Persian: پاپ‎ (fa) (pâp)
• Russian: поп-му́зыка (ru) f (pop-múzyka), поп (ru) m (pop), (slang) попса́ (ru) f (popsá)
• Slovak: pop m

Etymology 4

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

Alternative forms

• pope

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• OPP, Opp, PPO, opp, opp.

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch pop.

Noun

pop (plural poppe)

1. doll

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Catalan

Etymology 1

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

Noun

pop m (plural pops)

1. octopus

Synonyms

• polp

See also

• calamars m

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of popular

Adjective

pop (invariable)

1. popular

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔp/

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• Hyphenation: pop
• Rhymes: -ɔp

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

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

Derived terms

• babypop
• etalagepop
• handpop
• kloddenpop
• lappenpop
• ledenpop
• plaspop
• poppenhuis
• poppenkast
• poppenspel
• sneeuwpop
• sokpop
• trekpop
• voddenpop
• wajangpop

 

Verb

pop

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

Etymology 2

From English pop, possibly through shortening of popmuziek.

Noun

pop f (uncountable)

1. pop, pop music

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Finnish

Adverb

pop (not comparable)

1. pop (popular)

Noun

pop

1. pop (popular music)

Declension

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

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French

Adjective

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

1. pop (popular)

Noun

pop m (plural pop)

1. pop, pop music

Synonyms

• musique pop

Further reading

• “pop” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Hungarian

Etymology

From English pop(ular).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpop]

Noun

pop (plural popok)

1. (music) pop, pop music

Declension

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 terms

• popegyüttes
• popénekes
• popfesztivál
• popzene

References

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Molise Croatian

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian pop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pôp/

Noun

pop m

1. priest

Declension

    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

References

• 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).

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Navajo

Particle

pop

1. flirting

   Shichʼįʼ nił pop!

   You’re flirting with me!

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔp/

Noun

pop m inan

1. pop music

Declension

declension of pop

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

Noun

pop m pers

1. Eastern Orthodox priest

Declension

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

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Portuguese

Noun

pop m (uncountable)

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

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pôp/

Noun

pȍp m (Cyrillic spelling по̏п)

1. priest (usually Catholic or Orthodox)

Declension

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

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pop/

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

1. priest (usually Catholic or Orthodox)

Declension

Declension of pop

	singular	plural
nominative	pop	popi
genitive	popa	popov
dative	popovi	popom
accusative	popa	popov
locative	popovi	popoch
instrumental	popom	popmi

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English pop.

Noun

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

1. pop music, pop

Declension

Declension of pop

	singulare tantum
nominative	pop
genitive	popu
dative	popu
accusative	pop
locative	pope
instrumental	popom

Further reading

• pop in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

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Spanish

Noun

pop m (plural pops)

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

Synonyms

(popcorn):

• cancha f
• cotufa (Venezuela)
• palomita (de maíz) f (Colombia, Mexico, Spain)
• pochoclo (Argentina)
• poporopo (Guatemala)
• rosita (de maiz) f

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English Pope.

Noun

pop

1. Pope

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Turkish

Noun

pop (definite accusative popu, plural poplar)

1. pop
2. Pop music

Declension

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

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Volapük

Noun

pop (plural pops)

1. (obsolete, Volapük Rigik) people, nation

Declension

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 some later, non-classical Volapük only

Synonyms

• pöp (Volapük Nulik)

Derived terms

• popik