pop
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (countable) A loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle, especially when the contents are pressurized by fizziness.Examples: "Listen to the pop of a champagne cork."countable
2. (uncountable, regional, Midwestern US, Canada, Inland Northern American, Midlands, Northwestern US, Western Pennsylvania, Northern England) An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.Examples: "Lunch was sandwiches and a bottle of pop."; "You have not taken anything off "pop" yet, and "pop" is the working-class drink. For the working-classes it is "pop" and cockles, just as with the upper classes it is champagne and oysters."; "The best thing on the table was a tray full of bottles of lemon pop."CanadaInland-Northern-AmericanMidlandsMidwestern-USNorthern-EnglandNorthwesternPennsylvaniaUSWesternregionaluncountable
3. (countable, regional, Midwestern US, Inland Northern American, Northwestern US, Canada, Western Pennsylvania) A bottle, can, or serving of effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; a soda pop.Examples: "Go in the store and buy us three pops."CanadaInland-Northern-AmericanMidwestern-USNorthwesternPennsylvaniaUSWesterncountableregional
4. (colloquial, in the phrase "a pop") A quantity dispensed; a portion; apiece.Examples: "They cost 50 pence a pop."; "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)."colloquialcountableuncountable
5. (computing) The removal of a data item from the top of a stack.Examples: "Pushes and pops change the stack; indexing just accesses it."countableuncountable
6. (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.countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound.Examples: "The muskets popped away on all sides."intransitive
2. (ergative) To burst (something) with a popping sound.Examples: "The boy with the pin popped the balloon."; "This corn pops well."; "The waves came round her. She was a rock. She was covered with the seaweed which pops when it is pressed. He was lost."ergative
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.Examples: "A rabbit popped out of the hole."; "He that hath . . ./ Popp'd in between the election and my hopes."; "I startled at his popping upon me unexpectedly."Synonyms: peekintransitiveusually
4. (transitive, UK, Australia) To place (something) (somewhere); to move or position (something) with a short movement.Examples: "Just pop it in the fridge for now."; "He popped his head around the door."; "Mix a pancake, Stir a pancake, Pop it in the pan;[…]"Synonyms: nipAustraliaUKtransitive
5. (intransitive, often with over, round, along, in, etc.) To make a short trip or visit.Examples: "I'm just popping round to the newsagent."; "I'll pop by your place later today."; "You wait in the car, I'm just gonna pop in the store."intransitiveoftenusually
6. (intransitive) To stand out; to be distinctive to the senses.Examples: "This colour really pops."; "She also looked like a star - and not the Beltway type. On a stage full of stiff suits, she popped."; "IK what you’re thinking: Why bright for fall? But it’s actually a great hack for making your hair pop a bit more against all those big black coats and jackets."intransitive
noun (English)
1. (colloquial, endearing) One's father.Examples: "My pop used to tell me to do my homework every night."colloquialendearing
adj (English)
1. (used attributively in set phrases) Popular.attributivenot-comparable
noun (English)
1. (Russian Orthodoxy, uncommon) A Russian Orthodox parish priest.Examples: "There was at that time in the house of the Consul a Pop (or Russian Priest) named Iwan Afanassich."; "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)"; "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."uncommon
noun (English)
1. (telecommunications) Acronym of point of presence.abbreviationacronymalt-of
2. (trading) Acronym of Point of Purchase.abbreviationacronymalt-of
3. (weather) Acronym of probability of precipitation.abbreviationacronymalt-of
4. (television) Acronym of picture outside of picture.abbreviationacronymalt-of
5. (environmental science) Acronym of persistent organic pollutant.Examples: "One commonly used POP (persistent organic pollutant), organochlorine, may be responsible for contaminating the world's seafood supply, since pesticides can run off the land into streams, lakes, and reservoirs."abbreviationacronymalt-of
Definition source: Wiktionary