pop
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (UK, Canada) enPR: pŏp, IPA(key): /pɒp/
- (US) enPR: pŏp, IPA(key): /pɑp/
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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.
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Listen to the pop of a champagne cork.
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- (uncountable, regional, Midwestern US, Canada, dated British) 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.
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Go in the store and buy us three pops.
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- Shortened from pop shot: a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm. Possibly confusion, by assonance, with pot as in pot shot.
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The man with the gun took a pop at the rabbit.
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- (colloquial, in the phrase "a pop") A portion, a quantity dispensed.
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They cost 50 pence a pop.
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- 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.
- 2011, Mark Lutz, Programming Python, page 1371:
- 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.
SynonymsEdit
- (soda pop): see the list at soda
Derived termsEdit
- (see below, for Etymology 1)
TranslationsEdit
loud, sharp sound
soda pop
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.
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The muskets popped away on all sides.
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- (ergative) To burst (something) with a popping sound.
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The boy with the pin popped the balloon.
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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.
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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.
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- (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.
- (transitive, Britain) To place (something) (somewhere); to move or position (something) with a short movement.
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Just pop it in the fridge for now.
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He popped his head around the door.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- He popped a paper into his hand.
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- (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.
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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).
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He popped me on the nose.
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- (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).
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I had to pop my watch to see me through until pay-day.
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- (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.
- 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.
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My ears popped as the aeroplane began to ascend.
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Derived termsEdit
- (see below, for Etymology 1)
TranslationsEdit
to make a sharp quick sound
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to burst something
to enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement
to place something somewhere
to hit — see hit
to ejaculate — see ejaculate
computing: to remove a data item from the top of a stack
to perform a move while riding a board or vehicle
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to undergo equalization of pressure when the Eustachian tubes open
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InterjectionEdit
pop
- 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
NounEdit
pop (plural pops)
- (colloquial) Affectionate form of father.
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My pop used to tell me to do my homework every night.
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TranslationsEdit
affectionate form of father
See alsoEdit
Etymology 3Edit
From popular, by shortening.
AdjectiveEdit
pop (not comparable)
- (used attributively in set phrases) Popular.
NounEdit
pop (uncountable)
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from pop
TranslationsEdit
pop music
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)
- (Russian Orthodoxy, uncommon) A Russian Orthodox priest; a parson.
- 1822, Mikhaïlov Vasiliï, Adventures of Michailow, 4
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There was at that time in the house of the Consul a Pop (or Russian Priest) named Iwan Afanassich.
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- 2001, Spas Raïkin, Rebel with a Just Cause, 292 n.28
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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)
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- 2006, Peter Neville, A Traveller's History of Russia, 123
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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.
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- 1822, Mikhaïlov Vasiliï, Adventures of Michailow, 4
AnagramsEdit
AfrikaansEdit
CatalanEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Latin polypus, from Ancient Greek πολύπους (polúpous).
NounEdit
pop m (plural pops)
SynonymsEdit
See alsoEdit
- calamars m
Etymology 2Edit
Abbreviation of popular
AdjectiveEdit
pop (invariable)
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
pop f, m (plural poppen, diminutive popje n or poppetje n)
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from pop
VerbEdit
pop
Etymology 2Edit
From English pop, possibly through shortening of popmuziek.
NounEdit
pop f (uncountable)
FinnishEdit
AdverbEdit
pop (not comparable -)
- pop (popular)
NounEdit
pop
- pop (popular music)
DeclensionEdit
| 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
AdjectiveEdit
pop (feminine singular pope, masculine plural pops, feminine plural popes)
- pop (popular)
NounEdit
pop m (plural pop)
SynonymsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “pop” in le 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) | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
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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. Tinta Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2005, ISBN 963 7094 20 2
LojbanEdit
Molise CroatianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Serbo-Croatian pop.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pop m
DeclensionEdit
declension of pop
| singular | plural | |
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| 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).
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PolishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pop m inan
DeclensionEdit
declension of pop
NounEdit
pop m pers
DeclensionEdit
declension of pop
PortugueseEdit
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
Declension of pop
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
Declension of pop
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
pop m (genitive singular popu, declension pattern of dub)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of pop
Further readingEdit
- pop in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk
SpanishEdit
NounEdit
pop m (plural pops)
SynonymsEdit
(popcorn):
- cancha f
- cotufa (Venezuela)
- palomita (de maíz) f (Colombia, Mexico, Spain)
- pochoclo (Argentina)
- poporopo (Guatemala)
- rosita (de maiz) f
TurkishEdit
NounEdit
pop (definite accusative popu, plural poplar)
DeclensionEdit
declension of pop
possessive forms of pop