Wiktionary

pop

See also: Pop, POP, pöp, and pop.

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.
    • 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).
  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
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.
    • 2016 October 10, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, Oct 10, 2016:
      "To torture another metaphor, it would be the difference between slowly letting the air out of a balloon, and popping it. Though the dam metaphor is more apt, what with the excess magic flooding outward."
  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.
  4. (transitive, UK) 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, UK, 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.
    • 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).
  11. (intransitive, slang) To give birth.
    • 2021 April 12, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 1362 - Prophecy:
      "Gavin told me one of his friends was pregnant, but my goodness, she looks ready to pop."
  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 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.
  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.
    • 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 49:
      With its airtight seals, the pressure change as trains entered the black, dust-covered station areas caused our ears to pop and doors to flap and bang every time.
  16. To perform the popping style of dance.
  17. (transitive, slang) To arrest.
    He's on probation. We can pop him right now for gang association.
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.
    • 1899 Feb, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 203:
      Pop, would go one of the eight-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech - and nothing happened.
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, endearing) One's father.
    My pop used to tell me to do my homework every night.
TranslationsEdit
father
Derived termsEdit
  • Pop (US nickname for a stage doorman)
See alsoEdit

Etymology 3Edit

Clipping of popular.

AdjectiveEdit

pop (not comparable)

  1. (used attributively in set phrases) Popular.

NounEdit

pop (uncountable)

  1. Pop music.
TranslationsEdit

Derived termsEdit

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)

  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, diminutive poppie)

  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 (indeclinable)

  1. popular

Further readingEdit

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)

  1. cocoon, pupa
    Synonym: cocon
  2. doll
    Synonym: (Belgium) poppemie
  3. As a term for a girl or woman:
    1. (often diminutive) A term of endearment: darling, sweetheart.
    2. A pretty girl or young woman.
      Synonym: (Belgium) poppemie
    3. (often derogatory) A girl or woman who wears a lot of make-up.
      Synonym: (Belgium) poppemie
  4. (Netherlands, colloquial) guilder
    Synonym: gulden
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: pubiki (from the diminutive form)
  • Petjo: pop
  • → Indonesian: pop
  • → Papiamentu: pòpchi, pouchi (Aruba), poptsje
  • → Sranan Tongo: popki (from the diminutive form)

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
Derived termsEdit

FinnishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈpop/, [ˈpo̞p]
  • Rhymes: -op
  • Syllabification: pop

AdjectiveEdit

pop (not comparable)

  1. (chiefly in compounds) 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
Possessive forms of pop (type risti)
possessor singular plural
1st person popini popimme
2nd person popisi popinne
3rd person popinsa

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
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		popé popoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		popéi popokéi
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

IndonesianEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɔp̚]
  • Hyphenation: pop

Etymology 1Edit

From clipping of populer.

AdjectiveEdit

pop

  1. popular.

Etymology 2Edit

From Dutch pop, from New Latin pupa. Doublet of pupa and popi

NounEdit

pop (first-person possessive popku, second-person possessive popmu, third-person possessive popnya)

  1. (colloquial) doll.
    Synonym: boneka

Further readingEdit

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. (slang) flirting
    Shichʼįʼ nił pop!
    You’re flirting with me!

PolishEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from English pop music.

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

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from Old Czech pop.

NounEdit

pop m pers

  1. Eastern Orthodox priest
    Synonym: (colloquial) batiuszka
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

Further readingEdit

  • pop in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • pop in Polish dictionaries at PWN

PortugueseEdit

NounEdit

pop m (uncountable)

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

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing from English pop.

AdjectiveEdit

pop m or f or n (indeclinable)

  1. (music) pop

DeclensionEdit

Declension of pop (invariable)
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite pop pop pop pop
definite — — — —
genitive/
dative 		indefinite pop pop pop pop
definite — — — —

NounEdit

pop n (uncountable)

  1. (music) pop, pop music

DeclensionEdit

declension of pop (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) pop popul
genitive/dative (unui) pop popului
vocative popule

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 (anim series-2b masc cons-stem)
singular plural
nominative pop
 pope
genitive popa
 pop, popi
dative popu
 popami, popi
accusative pop, popa
 pope
locative popu
 pope
instrumental popom, popam
 popami, popi

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)

  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 slovnik.juls.savba.sk

SpanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pop m (plural pops)

  1. (Uruguay) popcorn
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:palomita
  2. pop, pop music

Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

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
Nominative
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
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular popumu poplarımı
2nd singular popunu poplarını
3rd singular popunu poplarını
1st plural popumuzu poplarımızı
2nd plural popunuzu poplarınızı
3rd plural poplarını poplarını
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular popuma poplarıma
2nd singular popuna poplarına
3rd singular popuna poplarına
1st plural popumuza poplarımıza
2nd plural popunuza poplarınıza
3rd plural poplarına poplarına
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular popumda poplarımda
2nd singular popunda poplarında
3rd singular popunda poplarında
1st plural popumuzda poplarımızda
2nd plural popunuzda poplarınızda
3rd plural poplarında poplarında
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular popumdan poplarımdan
2nd singular popundan poplarından
3rd singular popundan poplarından
1st plural popumuzdan poplarımızdan
2nd plural popunuzdan poplarınızdan
3rd plural poplarından poplarından
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular popumun poplarımın
2nd singular popunun poplarının
3rd singular popunun poplarının
1st plural popumuzun poplarımızın
2nd plural popunuzun poplarınızın
3rd plural poplarının poplarının

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

WelshEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English pop.

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

pop (feminine singular pop, plural pop, not comparable)

  1. pop (popular)

Derived termsEdit

NounEdit

pop m

  1. pop (pop music)
    Synonym: cerddoriaeth bop

MutationEdit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
pop bop mhop phop
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further readingEdit

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pop”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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)

  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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