Pop | |
1. n. A social club and debating society at Eton College. | |
2. n. The body of college prefects. | |
3. n. (also in plural) A popular classical music concert. | |
4. n. A loud, sharp sound as of a cork coming out of a bottle. | |
Listen to the pop of a champagne cork. | |
5. n. (regional, Midwest US, Canada, British) An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop. | |
Lunch was sandwiches and a bottle of pop. | |
6. n. (regional, Midwest 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. | |
7. n. Shortened from pop shot: a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm. Possibly confusion, by assonance, with pot as in pot shot. | |
The man with the gun took a pop at the rabbit. | |
8. n. (colloquial, in the phrase "a pop") A quantity dispensed, a portion, apiece. | |
They cost 50 pence a pop. | |
9. n. Something that stands out or is distinctive, especially to the senses. | |
a white dress with a pop of red | |
a pop of vanilla flavour | |
10. n. (computing) The removal of a data item from the top of a stack. | |
11. n. A bird, the European redwing. | |
12. n. (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. | |
13. v. (intransitive) To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound. | |
The muskets popped away on all sides. | |
14. v. To burst (something) with a popping sound. | |
The boy with the pin popped the balloon. | |
This corn pops well. | |
15. v. (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. | |
16. v. (transitive, UK) 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. | |
17. v. (intransitive, UK, 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. | |
18. v. (intransitive) To stand out; to be distinctive to the senses. | |
This colour really pops. | |
19. v. To hit (something or someone). | |
He popped me on the nose. | |
20. v. (transitive, slang) To shoot (usually somebody) with a firearm. | |
21. v. (intransitive, vulgar) To ejaculate. | |
22. v. (transitive, computing) To remove (a data item) from the top of a stack. | |
23. v. (transitive, computing) To remove a data item from the top of (a stack). | |
24. v. (transitive, slang) To pawn (something) (to raise money). | |
I had to pop my watch to see me through until pay-day. | |
25. v. (transitive, slang) To swallow (a tablet of a drug). | |
26. v. (transitive, informal) To perform (a move or stunt) while riding a board or vehicle. | |
27. v. (intransitive, of the ears) To undergo equalization of pressure when the Eustachian tubes open. | |
My ears popped as the aeroplane began to ascend. | |
28. interj. Used to represent a loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle. | |
29. n. (colloquial) Affectionate form of father. | |
My pop used to tell me to do my homework every night. | |
30. adj. (used attributively in set phrases) Popular. | |
31. n. Pop music. | |
32. n. (Russian Orthodoxy, uncommon) A Russian Orthodox priest; a parson. | |