pop
Part of speech: verb
intj
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: pops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: popping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: popped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: popped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The muskets popped away on all sides.
gloss: To burst (something) with a popping sound.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
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.
"To torture another metaphor, it would be the difference between slowly letting the air out of a balloon, and popping it. Though the dam metaphor is more apt, what with the excess magic flooding outward."
gloss: To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
usually
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.
So, diving in a bottomless sea, they [the Roman Church] pop sometimes above water to take breath.
others again have a trick of popping up and down every moment from their paper, to the audience, like an idle schoolboy
When company comes, you are not to pop out and stare, and then run in again, like frightened rabbits in a warren.
Lee Cheng popped on the phone line. "Right. I'm tracing it." More keytaps, this time with a few beeps thrown in.
gloss: To place (something) (somewhere); to move or position (something) with a short movement.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
UK
transitive
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;[…]
gloss: To make a short trip or visit.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
often
usually
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.
gloss: To stand out; to be distinctive to the senses.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
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.
gloss: To hit (something or someone).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He popped me on the nose.
gloss: To shoot (usually somebody) with a firearm.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: To ejaculate; to orgasm.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
vulgar
examples: Ah concur wi Sharon’s wishes n fuck her in the fanny. […] Ah think aboot how close she is tae poppin and how far up ah am, […]
gloss: To remove (a data item) from the top of a stack.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).
gloss: To give birth.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: Well, dear. You're ready to pop, aren't you? Little one's on its way.
"Gavin told me one of his friends was pregnant, but my goodness, she looks ready to pop."
gloss: To sexually penetrate.
pos: verb
examples: A lot of Black men are deluding themselves into thinking they're not homosexual or bisexual, even though they are having sex with other men. They're not 'gay,' but sure, they've 'popped some sissies.'
Why Halle have to let a white man pop her to get a Oscar?
gloss: To pawn (something) (to raise money).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: I had to pop my watch to see me through until pay-day.
I often used to smile at a young Ensign of the Guards, who always popped his sword and watch when he wanted cash for an intrigue; […]
Mr. Attenborough is naturally indignant at the accusation of Lord Truro that every pawnbroker keeps a smelting apparatus on the premises. He says the practice has been discontinued for many years, and our esteemed relative — the Universal Uncle — objects to the insinuation that when a thing is popped it goes to pot.
gloss: To swallow or consume (especially a tablet of a drug, sometimes extended to other small items such as sweets or candy).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: We were drinking beer and popping pills — some really strong downers. I could hardly walk and I had no idea what I was saying.
31 pop some chocolate You'll stay sharp and focused for that final lunge toward the weekend. Milk chocolate has been shown to boost verbal and visual memory, impulse control, and reaction time.
gloss: To perform (a move or stunt) while riding a board or vehicle.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: Pop a U-turn. You missed the turnoff.
Huck spun along the beams and joists, making me gulp when she popped a wheelie or swerved past a gaping hole...
The tail is the back of the deck; this is the part that enables skaters to pop ollies...
gloss: To undergo equalization of pressure when the Eustachian tubes open.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: My ears popped as the aeroplane began to ascend.
With its airtight seals, the pressure change as trains entered the black, dust-covered station areas caused our ears to pop and doors to flap and bang every time.
gloss: To perform the popping style of dance.
pos: verb
examples: Let the poppers pop and the breakers break / We're cool, cool cats, it's like that
gloss: To arrest.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: He's on probation. We can pop him right now for gang association.
On the night Nolan got popped, the same cop delivered Milton home in the back of the cruiser, but didn’t turn the lights on.
gloss: To pull a string away from the fretboard and release it so that it snaps back.
pos: verb
gloss: To occur or happen.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: What's popping?
gloss: A loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle.
pos: intj
examples: Pop, would go one of the eight-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech - and nothing happened.
So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged and then he scrooged again and scrabbled and scratched and scraped, working busily with his little paws and muttering to himself, 'Up we go! Up we go!' till at last, pop! his snout came out into the sunlight, and he found himself rolling in the warm grass of a great meadow.
gloss: Popular.
pos: adj
tags: attributive
not-comparable
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