pop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pŏp
ipa: /pɒp/
enpr: pŏp
ipa: /pɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: pops
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: Listen to the pop of a champagne cork.
coordinate_terms: cloop
glosses: A loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle, especially when the contents are pressurized by fizziness.
examples: text: Lunch was sandwiches and a bottle of pop.
text: 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.
ref: 1923, Ben Turner, “Estate Duty”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons), column 186:
text: The best thing on the table was a tray full of bottles of lemon pop.
ref: 1941 September 8, LIFE, page 27:
glosses: An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.
examples: text: Go in the store and buy us three pops.
glosses: A bottle, can, or serving of effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; a soda pop.
examples: text: The man with the gun took a pop at the rabbit.
glosses: A pop shot: a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm.
examples: text: They cost 50 pence a pop.
text: 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).
ref: 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, page 134:
glosses: A quantity dispensed; a portion; apiece.
raw_tags: in the phrase "a pop"
examples: text: a white dress with a pop of red
text: a pop of vanilla flavour
text: Nothing screams fall like corduroy! I'm loving this deep seafoam green shacket—made of the thick, ribbed material—that'll give a fab pop of color to a muted ensemble.
ref: 2023 November 4, Kim Duong, Megan Uy, Tarah-Lynn Saint-Elien, “22 Best Shackets to Get You Through the Chilly Fall Weather”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Something that stands out or is distinctive to the mind or senses.
examples: text: Pushes and pops change the stack; indexing just accesses it.
ref: 2011, Mark Lutz, Programming Python, page 1371:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The removal of a data item from the top of a stack.
glosses: A bird, the European redwing.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: 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.
examples: text: And then I got a shock, for a couple of ragged patriots standing close by, leaned over as Elliot moved, their eyes shining viciously, and quick as winking out came their pops, and I saw them ready and willing, yes, darned anxious to shoot.
ref: 1916, Adventure, volume 13, numbers 1-3, page 129:
glosses: A pistol.
examples: text: Immature peanuts, called "pops," are often included when the peanuts are boiled at home […]
ref: 1986, Mid-America Folklore, volume 14, page 6:
text: If the peanuts weren't yet mature, boiling them would make the tiny nuts—or “pops,” as they're called at that immature stage—swell up and become more filling.
ref: 2013, Becky Billingsley, A Culinary History of Myrtle Beach & the Grand Strand:
glosses: A small, immature peanut, boiled as a snack.
examples: text: Although they go by many names across the world freezer pop, ice-pole, pop stick icy-pole ice pop, tip top and ice candy but in the hoods of America they are known and respected as Freeze Pops. The pops are made by freezing flavored liquid such as sugar water, Kool-Aid or some form of fruit juice or purée inside a plastic tube - at least the kinds we ate.
ref: 2017, Kenny Attaway, Black Cream: A Handful of Sky & a Pocketful of Confetti:
glosses: Ellipsis of freeze pop.
glosses: A lollipop.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A (usually very) loud audience reaction.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The pulling of a string away from the fretboard and releasing it so that it snaps back.
Synonyms: sense: soda pop
word: the list at soda