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See also: Pop, POP, and pöp

English

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɒp

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

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, British) 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.

Synonyms

  • (soda pop): see the list at soda
Derived terms
(see below, for Etymology 1)
Translations

Verb

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  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[1]:
      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.
    • 1599-1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, v 2 65
      He that hath . . ./ Popp'd in between the election and my hopes.
    • (Can we date this quote by Addison and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      I startled at his popping upon me unexpectedly.
    • 1626, John Donne, "On the Nativity", Sermons, iv
      So, diving in a bottomless sea, they [the Roman Church] pop sometimes above water to take breath.
    • (Can we date this quote by Jonathan Swift and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Others have a trick of popping up and down every moment from their paper to the audience, like an idle school-boy.
    • 1773, 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, 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.
    • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      He popped a paper into his hand.
  5. (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.
  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.
Derived terms
(see below, for Etymology 1)
Translations
to hit — see hit
to ejaculate — see ejaculate

Interjection

pop

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

Derived terms

Terms derived from pop (Etymology 1, all parts of speech)

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Etymology 2

From papa or poppa.

Noun

pop (plural pops)

  1. (colloquial) Affectionate form of father.
    My pop used to tell me to do my homework every night.
Translations
See also

Etymology 3

From popular, by shortening.

Adjective

pop (not comparable)

  1. (used attributively in set phrases) Popular.

Noun

pop (uncountable)

  1. Pop music.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 4

From colloquial (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Russian поп (pop) and Попъ (Pop), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Church Slavonic попъ (popŭ), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 229: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "gkm" is not valid. See WT:LOL. (see pope).

Alternative forms

Noun

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.

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch pop.

Noun

pop (plural poppe)

  1. doll

Catalan

Etymology 1

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

Noun

pop m (plural pops)

  1. octopus
Alternative forms
See also

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of popular.

Adjective

pop (invariable)

  1. popular

Further reading

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

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

Verb

pop

  1. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of poppen
  2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of poppen

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: pop

Etymology 2

From English pop, possibly through shortening of popmuziek.

Noun

pop f (uncountable)

  1. pop, pop music

Finnish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpop/, [ˈpo̞p]
  • Rhymes: -op
  • Syllabification(key): pop

Adjective

pop (not comparable)

  1. (chiefly in compounds) pop (popular)

Noun

pop

  1. pop (popular music)

Declension

Declension of pop (type risti)
singular plural
nominative pop popit
genitive popin poppien
partitive poppia poppia
accusative pop
popin 		popit
inessive popissa popeissa
elative popista popeista
illative poppiin poppeihin
adessive popilla popeilla
ablative popilta popeilta
allative popille popeille
essive poppina poppeina
translative popiksi popeiksi
abessive popitta popeitta
instructive – popein
comitative – poppeineen
Inflection of pop (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative pop popit
genitive popin popien
partitive popia popeja
illative popiin popeihin
singular plural
nominative pop popit
accusative nom. pop popit
gen. popin
genitive popin popien
partitive popia popeja
inessive popissa popeissa
elative popista popeista
illative popiin popeihin
adessive popilla popeilla
ablative popilta popeilta
allative popille popeille
essive popina popeina
translative popiksi popeiksi
abessive popitta popeitta
instructive — popein
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of pop (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative popini popini
accusative nom. popini popini
gen. popini
genitive popini popieni
partitive popiani popejani
inessive popissani popeissani
elative popistani popeistani
illative popiini popeihini
adessive popillani popeillani
ablative popiltani popeiltani
allative popilleni popeilleni
essive popinani popeinani
translative popikseni popeikseni
abessive popittani popeittani
instructive — —
comitative — popeineni
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative popisi popisi
accusative nom. popisi popisi
gen. popisi
genitive popisi popiesi
partitive popiasi popejasi
inessive popissasi popeissasi
elative popistasi popeistasi
illative popiisi popeihisi
adessive popillasi popeillasi
ablative popiltasi popeiltasi
allative popillesi popeillesi
essive popinasi popeinasi
translative popiksesi popeiksesi
abessive popittasi popeittasi
instructive — —
comitative — popeinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative popimme popimme
accusative nom. popimme popimme
gen. popimme
genitive popimme popiemme
partitive popiamme popejamme
inessive popissamme popeissamme
elative popistamme popeistamme
illative popiimme popeihimme
adessive popillamme popeillamme
ablative popiltamme popeiltamme
allative popillemme popeillemme
essive popinamme popeinamme
translative popiksemme popeiksemme
abessive popittamme popeittamme
instructive — —
comitative — popeinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative popinne popinne
accusative nom. popinne popinne
gen. popinne
genitive popinne popienne
partitive popianne popejanne
inessive popissanne popeissanne
elative popistanne popeistanne
illative popiinne popeihinne
adessive popillanne popeillanne
ablative popiltanne popeiltanne
allative popillenne popeillenne
essive popinanne popeinanne
translative popiksenne popeiksenne
abessive popittanne popeittanne
instructive — —
comitative — popeinenne
third-person possessor
singular plural
nominative popinsa popinsa
accusative nom. popinsa popinsa
gen. popinsa
genitive popinsa popiensa
partitive popiaan
popiansa 		popejaan
popejansa
inessive popissaan
popissansa 		popeissaan
popeissansa
elative popistaan
popistansa 		popeistaan
popeistansa
illative popiinsa popeihinsa
adessive popillaan
popillansa 		popeillaan
popeillansa
ablative popiltaan
popiltansa 		popeiltaan
popeiltansa
allative popilleen
popillensa 		popeilleen
popeillensa
essive popinaan
popinansa 		popeinaan
popeinansa
translative popikseen
popiksensa 		popeikseen
popeiksensa
abessive popittaan
popittansa 		popeittaan
popeittansa
instructive — —
comitative — popeineen
popeinensa

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

  1. pop (popular)

Noun

pop m (plural pop)

  1. pop, pop music

Synonyms

Further reading

Hungarian

Etymology

From English pop(ular).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

pop (plural popok)

  1. (music) pop, pop music

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative pop popok
accusative popot popokat
dative popnak popoknak
instrumental poppal popokkal
causal-final popért popokért
translative poppá popokká
terminative popig popokig
essive-formal popként popokként
essive-modal — —
inessive popban popokban
superessive popon popokon
adessive popnál popoknál
illative popba popokba
sublative popra popokra
allative pophoz popokhoz
elative popból popokból
delative popról popokról
ablative poptól popoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		popé popoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		popéi popokéi
Possessive forms of pop
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. popom popjaim
2nd person sing. popod popjaid
3rd person sing. popja popjai
1st person plural popunk popjaink
2nd person plural popotok popjaitok
3rd person plural popjuk popjaik

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɔp̚]
  • Hyphenation: pop

Etymology 1

From clipping of populer.

Adjective

pop

  1. popular.

Etymology 2

From Dutch pop, from New Latin pupa. Doublet of pupa and popi

Noun

pop (first-person possessive popku, second-person possessive popmu, third-person possessive popnya)

  1. (colloquial) doll.
    Synonym: boneka

Further reading

Jakaltek

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *pohp.

Noun

pop

  1. reed mat

References

  • Church, Clarence, Church, Katherine (1955) Vocabulario castellano-jacalteco, jacalteco-castellano‎[2] (in Spanish), Guatemala C. A.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 47; 41

Particle

pop

  1. flirting
    Shichʼįʼ nił pop!
    You’re flirting with me!

Polish

Pronunciation

Noun

pop m inan

  1. pop music

Declension

Declension of pop
singular
nominative pop
genitive popu
dative popowi
accusative pop
instrumental popem
locative popie
vocative popie

Noun

pop m pers

  1. Eastern Orthodox priest

Declension

Declension of pop
singular plural
nominative pop popowie/popy (deprecative)
genitive popa popów
dative popowi popom
accusative popa popów
instrumental popem popami
locative popie popach
vocative popie popowie

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Noun

pop m (uncountable)

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Church Slavonic попъ (popŭ), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek παπάς (papás), variant of πάππας (páppas, “daddy, papa”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pȍp m (Cyrillic spelling по̏п)

  1. priest (usually Catholic or Orthodox)

Declension

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

Slavomolisano

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian pop.

Pronunciation

Noun

pop m

  1. priest

Declension

    declension of pop (inan series-2a masc cons-stem)
singular plural
nominative pop
 pope
genitive popa
 popi
dative popu
 popi
accusative pop
 pope
locative popu
 pope
instrumental popom, popam
 popi

References

  • 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).

Slovak

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Church Slavonic попъ (popŭ), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek παπάς (papás), variant of πάππας (páppas, “daddy, papa”).

Noun

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

  1. priest (usually Catholic or Orthodox)
Declension
Declension of pop
singular plural
nominative pop popi
genitive popa popov
dative popovi popom
accusative popa popov
locative popovi popoch
instrumental popom popmi

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English pop.

Noun

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

  1. pop music, pop
Declension
Declension of pop
singulare tantum
nominative pop
genitive popu
dative popu
accusative pop
locative pope
instrumental popom

Further reading

  • “pop”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Spanish

Noun

pop m (plural pops)

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

Synonyms

(popcorn):

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English Pope.

Noun

pop

  1. Pope

Turkish

Noun

pop (definite accusative popu, plural poplar)

  1. pop
  2. Pop music

Declension

Inflection
Nominative pop
Definite accusative popu
Singular Plural
Nominative pop poplar
Definite accusative popu popları
Dative popa poplara
Locative popta poplarda
Ablative poptan poplardan
Genitive popun popların
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular popum poplarım
2nd singular popun popların
3rd singular popu popları
1st plural popumuz poplarımız
2nd plural popunuz poplarınız
3rd plural popları popları
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular popumu poplarımı
2nd singular popunu poplarını
3rd singular popunu poplarını
1st plural popumuzu poplarımızı
2nd plural popunuzu poplarınızı
3rd plural poplarını poplarını
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular popuma poplarıma
2nd singular popuna poplarına
3rd singular popuna poplarına
1st plural popumuza poplarımıza
2nd plural popunuza poplarınıza
3rd plural poplarına poplarına
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular popumda poplarımda
2nd singular popunda poplarında
3rd singular popunda poplarında
1st plural popumuzda poplarımızda
2nd plural popunuzda poplarınızda
3rd plural poplarında poplarında
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular popumdan poplarımdan
2nd singular popundan poplarından
3rd singular popundan poplarından
1st plural popumuzdan poplarımızdan
2nd plural popunuzdan poplarınızdan
3rd plural poplarından poplarından
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular popumun poplarımın
2nd singular popunun poplarının
3rd singular popunun poplarının
1st plural popumuzun poplarımızın
2nd plural popunuzun poplarınızın
3rd plural poplarının poplarının

Volapük

Noun

pop (nominative plural pops)

  1. (obsolete, Volapük Rigik) people, nation

Declension

declension of pop
singular plural
nominative pop pops
genitive popa popas
dative pope popes
accusative popi popis
vocative 1 o pop! o pops!
predicative 2 popu popus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Synonyms

  • pöp (Volapük Nulik)

Derived terms

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Noun

pop c (plural poppen, diminutive popke)

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

Further reading

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