pop

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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic – used to describe the sound, or short, sharp actions.

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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, colloquial) An effervescent or fizzy drink most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.
  3. (countable, colloquial) 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. 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.
  5. (colloquial) A portion, a quantity dispensed.
    They cost 50 pence a pop.
  6. (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.
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terms derived from pop (noun)
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loud, sharp sound
soda pop

[edit] Verb

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

  1. (ergative) to burst something
    The boy with the pin popped the balloon.
    • 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”, 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.
  2. to act suddenly, unexpectedly or quickly.
  3. to hit.
    He gave me a pop on the nose.
  4. to ejaculate.
  5. (computing) To remove (a data item) from the top of a stack.
  6. to place something somewhere.
    Just pop it in the fridge for now.
  7. (transitive, slang) To swallow (a tablet of a drug).
    • 1994, Ruth Garner, 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.
  8. (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...
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terms derived from pop (verb)

Movement

Other
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to burst something
to act suddenly, unexpectedly or quickly

[edit] Interjection

pop

  1. Sound made in imitation of the sound.
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sound made in imitation of the sound

[edit] Etymology 2

From papa or poppa

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pop (plural pops)

  1. (colloquial) Affectionate form of father.
    My pop used to tell me to do my homework every night.
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affectionate form of father
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[edit] Etymology 3

From popular, by shortening.

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pop (not comparable)

  1. (used attributively in set phrases) Popular.

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pop (uncountable)

  1. Pop music.
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terms derived from pop (popular)
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pop music

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[edit] Afrikaans

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pop

  1. doll

[edit] Catalan

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From Latin polypus

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pop m. (plural pops)

  1. octopus
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[edit] Etymology 2

Abbreviation of popular

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pop m. (feminine pop, masculine plural pop, feminine plural pop)

  1. popular

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pop (f, m)

  1. doll

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pop

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

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pop (not comparable)

  1. pop (popular)

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pop

  1. pop (popular music)

[edit] Declension

Declension of pop (type risti)
singular plural
nominative pop popit
genitive popin popien
partitive popia popeja
accusative pop
popin		 popit
inessive popissa popeissa
elative popista popeista
illative popiin popeihin
adessive popilla popeilla
ablative popilta popeilta
allative popille popeille
essive popina popeina
translative popiksi popeiksi
instructive – popein
abessive popitta popeitta
comitative – popeineen

[edit] French

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pop m. (f. pope, m. plural pops, f. plural popes)

  1. pop (popular)

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pop m. inv.

  1. pop, pop music

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[edit] Serbo-Croatian

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

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pȍp m. (Cyrillic spelling по̏п)

  1. priest (usually Catholic or Orthodox)

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    declension of pop
singular plural
nominative pop popovi
genitive popa popova
dative popu popovima
accusative popa popove
vocative pope popovi
locative popu popovima
instrumental popom popovima

[edit] Spanish

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pop m.

  1. (Uruguay) popcorn

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