Pop

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pÉ’p/
• Rhymes: -É’p

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

Full definition of pop

Noun

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.
• 1941, LIFE magazine, 8 September 1941, page 27The best thing on the table was a tray full of bottles of lemon 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.
7. A bird, the European redwing.
8. (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.

Derived terms

Verb

1. (ergative) To burst (something): to cause to burst.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 microwaveThe 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 popped me on the nose.
4. To ejaculate.
5. (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.
• 2011, John Mongan, ‎Noah Kindler, ‎Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews ExposedThe algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).
6. (UK) To place (something) (somewhere).Just pop it in the fridge for now.
• MiltonHe popped a paper into his hand.
7. (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.
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...
9. (intransitive, of the ears) To undergo equalization of pressure when the Eustachian tubes open.My ears popped as the aeroplane began to ascend.
10. To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound.The muskets popped away on all sides.
11. To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart; with in, out, upon, etc.
• ShakespeareHe that killed my king ...
  Popp'd in between the election and my hopes.
• Jonathan Swifta trick of popping up and down every moment
12. To burst open with a pop, when heated over a fire.This corn pops well.
13. To stand out, to be visually distinctive.
• 2011, July 18, Robert Costa, The Battle from Waterloo: Representative Bachmann runs for presidentShe also looked like a star - and not the Beltway type. On a stage full of stiff suits, she popped.

Derived terms

Interjection

1. Sound made in imitation of the sound.

From papa or poppa

Noun

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

From popular, by shortening.

Adjective

1. (used attributively in set phrases) Popular.

Noun

1. Pop music.

Derived terms

From colloquial Russian поп and Попъ, from Old Church Slavonic попъ, from Byzantine Greek (see pope).

Alternative forms

• pope

Noun

1. (Russian Orthodoxy, uncommon) A Russian Orthodox priest; a parson.
• 1822, Mikhaïlov Vasiliï, Adventures of Michailow, 4There 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.28The 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, 123By the end of 1809 Catherine_Pavlovna_of_Russia 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

• OPP, opp, opp., PPO