pop

• (UK, Canada) enPR: pŏp, IPA^(key): /pɒp/
• (US) enPR: pŏp, IPA^(key): /pɑp/

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

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.

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, Midwestern US, Canada, Britain) An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.

   Lunch was sandwiches and a bottle of 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, Midwestern US, Canada) 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. A pop shot: a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm.

   The man with the gun took a pop at the rabbit.

5. (colloquial, in the phrase "a pop") A quantity dispensed, a portion, apiece.

   They cost 50 pence a pop.

6. Something that stands out or is distinctive, especially to the senses.

   a white dress with a pop of red

   a pop of vanilla flavour

7. (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.

8. A bird, the European redwing.
9. (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.
10. (slang, dated) A pistol.

• (soda pop): see the list at soda

(see below, for Etymology 1)

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

1. (intransitive) To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound.

   The muskets popped away on all sides.

2. (ergative) To burst (something) with a popping sound.

   The boy with the pin popped the balloon.

   This corn pops well.

   • 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”, in 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.

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.

   A rabbit popped out of the hole.

   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare, Hamlet, v 2 65

     He that hath . . ./ Popp'd in between the election and my hopes.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Addison

     I startled at his popping upon me unexpectedly.

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Donne, Sermons, iv

     So, diving in a bottomless sea, they [the Roman Church] pop sometimes above water to take breath.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Jonathan Swift

     Others have a trick of popping up and down every moment from their paper to the audience, like an idle school-boy.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, ii

     When company comes, you are not to pop out and stare, and then run in again, like frightened rabbits in a warren.

   • 1989, Clifford Stoll, The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

     Lee Cheng popped on the phone line. "Right. I'm tracing it." More keytaps, this time with a few beeps thrown in.

4. (transitive, Britain) To place (something) (somewhere); to move or position (something) with a short movement.

   Just pop it in the fridge for now.

   He popped his head around the door.

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     He popped a paper into his hand.

5. (intransitive, Britain, Canada, often with over, round, along, etc.) To make a short trip or visit.

   I'm just popping round to the newsagent.

   I'll pop by your place later today.

6. (intransitive) To stand out; to be distinctive to the senses.

   This colour really pops.

   • 2011 July 18, Robert Costa, “The Battle from Waterloo: Representative Bachmann runs for president”, in National Review:

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

7. (transitive) To hit (something or someone).

   He popped me on the nose.

8. (transitive, slang) To shoot (usually somebody) with a firearm.
9. (intransitive, vulgar) To ejaculate.
10. (transitive, 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.

11. (transitive, computing) To remove a data item from the top of (a 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).

12. (transitive, slang) To pawn (something) (to raise money).

    I had to pop my watch to see me through until pay-day.

13. (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.

14. (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...

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

    My ears popped as the aeroplane began to ascend.

(see below, for Etymology 1)

pop

1. Used to represent a loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle.

From papa or poppa.

pop (plural pops)

1. (colloquial) Affectionate form of father.

   My pop used to tell me to do my homework every night.

• papa, pa
• pap, paps

From popular, by shortening.

pop (not comparable)

1. (used attributively in set phrases) Popular.

pop (uncountable)

1. Pop music.

From colloquial Russian поп (pop) and Попъ (Pop), from Old Church Slavonic попъ (popŭ), from Byzantine Greek (see pope).

• pope

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.

• OPP, Opp, PPO, opp, opp.

From Dutch pop.

pop (plural poppe)

1. doll

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

pop m (plural pops)

1. octopus

• polp

• calamars m

Abbreviation of popular

pop (invariable)

1. popular

• IPA^(key): /pɔp/

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• Hyphenation: pop
• Rhymes: -ɔp

Borrowed from Latin pupa; sense of "coccon, pupa" from New Latin.

pop f or m (plural poppen, diminutive popje n or poppetje n)

1. doll
2. cocoon, pupa
3. (colloquial) guilder

pop

1. first-person singular present indicative of poppen
2. imperative of poppen

From English pop, possibly through shortening of popmuziek.

pop f (uncountable)

1. pop, pop music

pop (not comparable)

1. pop (popular)

pop

1. pop (popular music)

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

1. pop (popular)

pop m (plural pop)

1. pop, pop music

• musique pop

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

From English pop(ular).[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈpop]

pop (plural popok)

1. (music) pop, pop music

• popegyüttes
• popénekes
• popfesztivál
• popzene

From Serbo-Croatian pop.

• IPA^(key): /pôp/

pop m

1. priest

• Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale).

pop

1. flirting

   Shichʼįʼ nił pop!

   You’re flirting with me!

• IPA^(key): /pɔp/

pop m inan

1. pop music

pop m pers

1. Eastern Orthodox priest

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pop m (uncountable)

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

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

• IPA^(key): /pôp/

pȍp m (Cyrillic spelling по̏п)

1. priest (usually Catholic or Orthodox)

• IPA^(key): /pop/

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

pop m (genitive singular popa, nominative plural popi, declension pattern of chlap)

1. priest (usually Catholic or Orthodox)

Borrowed from English pop.

pop m (genitive singular popu, declension pattern of dub)

1. pop music, pop

• pop in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

pop m (plural pops)

1. (Uruguay) popcorn
2. pop, pop music

(popcorn):

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

From English Pope.

pop

1. Pope

pop (definite accusative popu, plural poplar)

1. pop
2. Pop music

pop (plural pops)

1. (obsolete, Volapük Rigik) people, nation

• pöp (Volapük Nulik)

• popik

• IPA^(key): /pop/

pop c (plural poppen, diminutive popke)

1. baby
2. doll, dummy, puppet
3. dear, darling

• “pop”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011