pop-up

See also: Pop-up, popup, and pop up

English

Alternative forms

• popup

Etymology

Deverbal from pop up.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɒpʌp/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Adjective

pop-up (not comparable)

1. Coming into view suddenly from a concealed position.

   I packed a pop-up hamper in my suitcase.

2. Opening out to form a three-dimensional structure when the page of a book is opened.
   • 1985, Margaret Atwood, “Night”, in The Handmaid’s Tale, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 155:

     […] I had a pop-up book of sexual organs by the time I was four – […]

3. Operating or existing for a brief period only; temporary.
   • 2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     But then this is essentially a pop-up team, glued into place brilliantly, with certain parts already chafing and smoking. Chelsea’s two top goalscorers could be off in a month, Diego Costa to cause an international incident in China, [Eden] Hazard to the usual summer suspects.

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4. (military) Employing the cold launch technique.

Derived terms

• pop-up book
• pop-up shop
• pop-up store

Noun

pop-up (plural pop-ups)

1. (Internet) A pop-up advertisement; an advertisement that is triggered to appear on a computer screen when the user accesses a particular web page.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pop-up

2. (baseball) A pop-up ball: a ball that has been hit to a considerable height above the infield or the shallow outfield; a pop fly.
3. A folded paper element which pops up from a book, greeting card, etc.
4. A business that opens for a brief temporary period only, such as a temporary restaurant.
   • 2012, Sam Benson, Alison Bing, Coastal California, Lonely Planet:

     Pop-ups often charge restaurant prices, but without advance menus, quality control, health-inspected facilities or professional service. Bring cash and arrive early: most pop-ups don't accept credit cards, and popular dishes run out fast.

   • 2023 February 15, John Eligon, “Exploring South Africa’s Black Wine Scene”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     Ms. Setti recently had to close her bar after a change of management at the food hall that housed it. But she plans to launch several pop-ups and hopes to find a new permanent space by the middle of the year, she said.

   • 2024 July 13, Harriet Fitch Little, “A reimagined classic”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19:

     I came across this recipe when Helen Graham cooked it for Bracia and Friends, a pop-up whose USP is that chefs must cook a single dish.

Derived terms

• pop-up advertisement

Translations

advertisement that pops up when one accesses an Internet page

• Catalan: anunci emergent m, finestra emergent f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 弹出广告 (tánchūguǎnggào), 彈窗 / 弹窗 (tánchuāng)

• Finnish: ponnahdusikkuna (fi)
• French: pop-up (fr)
• German: Pop-up (de) n
• Hungarian: felugró/előugró/felbukkanó hirdetés/reklám/ablak
• Indonesian: jendela sembul, jendela munculan
• Japanese: ポップアップ (poppu-appu)
• Korean: 팝업 (pabeop)
• Malay: tetingkap timbul
• Norwegian: pop-up m

  Bokmål: pop-upvindu n, sprettoppvindu n

  Nynorsk: pop-upvindauge n, sprettoppvindauge n

• Polish: wyskakujące okienko n
• Portuguese: publicidade instantânea f
• Serbo-Croatian: skočni prozor m
• Spanish: ventana emergente f
• Tigrinya: ተቐልቃሊ (täx̣älḳali)

business that quickly pops up

• Catalan: botiga temporal f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 遊擊 / 游击 (zh) (yóujī), 快閃 / 快闪 (zh) (kuàishǎn)

• French: restaurant éphémère (fr) m
• Spanish: temporario (es), temporáneo (es)

folded paper element

• Spanish: desplegable, troquelado (es)

See also

• ground ball
• fly ball
• line drive

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

English pop updeverb.

English pop-upubor.

Portuguese pop-up

Unadapted borrowing from English pop-up.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pɔˈpa.pi/

Noun

pop-up m (plural pop-ups)

1. (Internet) pop-up advertisement
2. pop-up (folded paper element which pops up from a book)

Adjective

pop-up m or f (plural pop-ups)

1. pop-up (opening out to form a three-dimensional structure when the page of a book is opened)
   • 2018 October 17, Crislaine Maria da Silva et al., “O uso do livro pop-up como recurso didático para o ensino de histologia”, in Anais V CONEDU‎^[3], Recife, →ISSN:

     Os livros pop-up são ilustrados com recortes tridimensionais em papel que se movem ao abrir o livro ou movimentar a página captando a atenção do leitor e despertando sua curiosidade.

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Further reading

• “pop-up”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026