Word: pop Part of Speech: noun 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. Pronunciation: /pɒp/, /pɑp/ 1. A loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle, especially when the contents are pressurized by fizziness. Labels: countable Example: Listen to the pop of a champagne cork. 2. An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop. Labels: Canada, Inland-Northern-American, Midlands, Midwestern-US, Northern-England, Northwestern, Pennsylvania, US, Western, regional, uncountable Example: Lunch was sandwiches and a bottle of pop. Example: 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. 3. A bottle, can, or serving of effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; a soda pop. Labels: Canada, Inland-Northern-American, Midwestern-US, Northwestern, Pennsylvania, US, Western, countable, regional Example: Go in the store and buy us three pops. 4. A pop shot: a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The man with the gun took a pop at the rabbit. 5. A quantity dispensed; a portion; apiece. Labels: colloquial, countable, uncountable Example: They cost 50 pence a pop. Example: 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 to the mind or senses. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a white dress with a pop of red Example: a pop of vanilla flavour 7. The removal of a data item from the top of a stack. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Pushes and pops change the stack; indexing just accesses it. 8. A bird, the European redwing. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. 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. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. A pistol. Labels: countable, dated, slang, uncountable Example: 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. 11. A small, immature peanut, boiled as a snack. Labels: US, countable, plural, uncountable Example: Immature peanuts, called "pops," are often included when the peanuts are boiled at home […] Example: 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. 12. Ellipsis of freeze pop. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Example: 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. 13. A lollipop. Labels: colloquial, countable, uncountable 14. A (usually very) loud audience reaction. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable 15. The pulling of a string away from the fretboard and releasing it so that it snaps back. Labels: countable, uncountable