Meaning of pop | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Population.
   uncountable
2. Initialism of proof of personhood.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
3. A Russian Orthodox parish priest.
   uncommon
4. Acronym of persistent organic pollutant.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable
5. A social club and debating society at Eton College.
6. A popular classical music concert.
   also, plural
7. Traditional nickname for a stage doorman.
   US, colloquial
8. Initialism of Pacific Ocean Park.
   abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism
9. ISO 639-3 language code for Pwapwâ
10. One's father.
    colloquial, endearing
11. Pop music.
    uncountable
12. A loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle, especially when the contents are pressurized by fizziness.
    countable
13. Initialism of package on a package.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
14. Acronym of picture outside of picture.
    abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
15. The body of college prefects.
16. Acronym of Post Office Protocol.
    Internet, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
17. A loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle, especially when the contents are pressurized by fizziness
18. Informal To pay for: I'll pop for the video if you buy some snacks.
    Informal
19. An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.
    Canada, Inland-Northern-American, Midlands, Midwestern-US, Northern-England, Northwestern, Pennsylvania, US, Western, regional
20. Acronym of point of presence.
    abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable
21. An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop
22. Informal To visit briefly: just popped in to say hello.
    Informal
23. A bottle, can, or serving of effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; a soda pop.
    Canada, Inland-Northern-American, Midwestern-US, Northwestern, Pennsylvania, US, Western, countable, regional
24. Acronym of Point of Purchase.
    abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable
25. A bottle, can, or serving of effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; a soda pop
26. Slang Apiece; each: Tickets to the benefit were $100 a pop.
    Slang
27. A pop shot: a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm.
    countable, uncountable
28. Acronym of probability of precipitation.
    abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
29. A pop shot: a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm
30. To propose marriage.
31. A quantity dispensed; a portion; apiece.
    colloquial, countable, uncountable
32. Something that stands out or is distinctive to the mind or senses.
    countable, uncountable
33. Acronym of progestogen-only pill or progestin-only pill.
    abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable
34. Father.
35. The removal of a data item from the top of a stack.
    countable, uncountable
36. a frozen ice or ice-cream confection on a stick.
37. A bird, the European redwing.
    countable, uncountable
38. To go to or seek out the company of in order to socialize:call, come by, come over, drop by, drop in, look in, look up, run in, see, stop (by or in), visit.
    or
39. 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.
    countable, uncountable
40. Informal. To cease living:decease, demise, depart, die, drop, expire, go, pass away, pass (on), perish, succumb.
41. A pistol.
    countable, dated, slang, uncountable
42. A sudden sharp, explosive noise:bang, bark, clap, crack, explosion, rat-a-tat-tat, report, snap.
43. A small, immature peanut, boiled as a snack.
    US, countable, plural, uncountable
44. Informal. A male parent:father, sire.
45. Ellipsis of freeze pop.
    abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
46. A lollipop.
    colloquial, countable, uncountable
47. A (usually very) loud audience reaction.
    countable, slang, uncountable
48. The pulling of a string away from the fretboard and releasing it so that it snaps back.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Listen to the pop of a champagne cork.”

“Lunch was sandwiches and a bottle of pop.”

“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.”

“The best thing on the table was a tray full of bottles of lemon pop.”

“Go in the store and buy us three pops.”

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

“They cost 50 pence a pop.”

“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).”

“a white dress with a pop of red”

“a pop of vanilla flavour”

“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.”

“Pushes and pops change the stack; indexing just accesses it.”

“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.”

“Immature peanuts, called "pops," are often included when the peanuts are boiled at home […]”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“GUNNISON 35.5m. (153 alt., 484 pop.), is larger than the usual plantation town, having several stores instead of one.”

“There was at that time in the house of the Consul a Pop (or Russian Priest) named Iwan Afanassich.”

“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)”

“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.”

“One commonly used POP (persistent organic pollutant), organochlorine, may be responsible for contaminating the world's seafood supply, since pesticides can run off the land into streams, lakes, and reservoirs.”

“The parachutes at Riverview Park will shake us up all day / And Disneyland and P.O.P. is worth a trip to L.A”

“As to the tall, curly-haired man, I suppose it was the one who was with me at the last Pop.”

““All the other stars would leave the theatre wearing fur coats, fancy hats, and imported French shoes,” said Pop Stern, a longtime stage-doorman.”

“[…] George Melford (Pop, stage doorman) […]”

“[…] Ralph Sanford (doorman); A.S. “Pop” Byron (stage doorman); Allen Fox (photographer); […]”

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