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PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /pɒp/

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

Etymology 1Edit

Onomatopoeic – used to describe the sound, or short, sharp actions.

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, chiefly Midwestern US) An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda 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, chiefly Midwestern US) 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) A portion, a quantity dispensed.

   They cost 50 pence a pop.

6. (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.

7. A bird, the European redwing.
8. (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

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TranslationsEdit

VerbEdit

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

1. (ergative) To burst (something): to cause to burst.

   The boy with the pin popped the balloon.

   • 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”, Guardian:

     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.

2. To act suddenly, unexpectedly or quickly.
3. To hit (something or someone).

   He popped me on the nose.

4. (slang) To shoot (usually somebody) with a firearm.
5. (vulgar) To ejaculate.
6. (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).

7. (UK) To place (something) (somewhere).

   Just pop it in the fridge for now.

   • Milton

     He popped a paper into his hand.

8. (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.

9. (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...

10. (intransitive, of the ears) To undergo equalization of pressure when the Eustachian tubes open.

    My ears popped as the aeroplane began to ascend.

11. To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound.

    The muskets popped away on all sides.

12. To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart; with in, out, upon, etc.
    • Shakespeare

      He that killed my king […] / Popp'd in between the election and my hopes.

    • Jonathan Swift

      a trick of popping up and down every moment

13. To burst open with a pop, when heated over a fire.

    This corn pops well.

14. To stand out, to be visually distinctive.
    • 2011 July 18, Robert Costa, “The Battle from Waterloo: Representative Bachmann runs for president”, National Review:

      She also looked like a star - and not the Beltway type. On a stage full of stiff suits, she popped.

Derived terms (noun and verb)Edit

TranslationsEdit

InterjectionEdit

pop

1. Sound made in imitation of the sound.

TranslationsEdit

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

• papa, pa
• pap, paps

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

• pope

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

• OPP, opp, opp.
• PPO

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NounEdit

pop (^??? please provide the plural!)

1. doll

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Etymology 1Edit

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

NounEdit

pop m (plural pops)

1. octopus

SynonymsEdit

• polp

See alsoEdit

• calamars

Etymology 2Edit

Abbreviation of popular

AdjectiveEdit

pop m, f (invariable)

1. popular

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PronunciationEdit

• Rhymes: -ɔp

Etymology 1Edit

NounEdit

pop f (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 m (uncountable)

1. pop, pop music

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AdverbEdit

pop (not comparable -)

1. pop (popular)

NounEdit

pop

1. pop (popular music)

DeclensionEdit

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AdjectiveEdit

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

1. pop (popular)

NounEdit

pop m (plural pop)

1. pop, pop music

SynonymsEdit

• musique pop

External linksEdit

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

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RafsiEdit

pop

1. rafsi of porpi.

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ParticleEdit

pop

1. flirting

   Shichʼįʼ nił pop!

   You’re flirting with me!

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PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): [pɔp]

NounEdit

pop m inan

1. pop music

DeclensionEdit

NounEdit

pop m pers

1. Eastern Orthodox priest

DeclensionEdit

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NounEdit

pop m (uncountable)

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

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EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /pôp/

NounEdit

pȍp m (Cyrillic spelling по̏п)

1. priest (usually Catholic or Orthodox)

DeclensionEdit

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PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /pop/

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 chlap

1. priest (usually Catholic or Orthodox)

DeclensionEdit

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowing from English pop.

NounEdit

pop m (genitive singular popu), declension pattern dub

1. pop music, pop

DeclensionEdit

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NounEdit

pop m

1. (Uruguay) popcorn

SynonymsEdit

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

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NounEdit

pop (definite accusative popu, plural poplar)

1. Pop
2. Pop music

DeclensionEdit