pop

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive), Verb (intransitive), Adjective, Adverb, Interjection

CIDE DICTIONARY

pop, n. [Of imitative origin. Cf. Poop.].

•  A small, sharp, quick explosive sound or report; as, to go off with a pop.  Addison.  [1913 Webster]
•  A nonalcoholic carbonated beverage; -- so called because it expels the cork with a pop from the bottle containing it; as, ginger pop; lemon pop, etc.  Hood.  [1913 Webster]
•  The European redwing.  [1913 Webster]

Pop corn. (a) Corn, or maize, of peculiar excellence for popping; especially, a kind the grains of which are small and compact. (b) Popped corn; corn which has been popped.

pop, v. i. 

•  To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound; as, the muskets popped away on all sides.  [1913 Webster]
•  To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart; -- with in, out, upon, off, etc.  [1913 Webster]

  "He that killed my king . . .
  Popp'd in between the election and my hopes."  [1913 Webster]

  "A trick of popping up and down every moment."  [1913 Webster]
•  To burst open with a pop, when heated over a fire; as, this corn pops well.  [1913 Webster]

pop, v. t. 

•  To thrust or push suddenly; to offer suddenly; to bring suddenly and unexpectedly to notice; as, to pop one's head in at the door.  [1913 Webster]

  "He popped a paper into his hand."  [1913 Webster]
•  To cause to pop; to cause to burst open by heat, as grains of Indian corn; as, to pop corn or chestnuts.  [1913 Webster]
•  To eat or swallow; -- of food, especially snacks, in small pieces; as, he popped a whole can of peanuts while watching the movie.  [PJC]

To pop off, (a) to thrust away, or put off promptly; as, to pop one off with a denial. Locke. (b) to make a statement, or series of statements, forcefully and in an opinionated manner; as, he popped off about his dislike of modern art. -- To pop the question, to make an offer of marriage to a lady. [Colloq.] Dickens.

pop, adv. 

 Like a pop; suddenly; unexpectedly.  Beau. & Fl.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pop, abbr. Post Office Preferred (size of envelopes etc.).

pop, n., v., & adv.
--n.
1 a sudden sharp explosive sound as of a cork when drawn.
2 colloq. an effervescent sweet drink.
--v. (popped, popping)
1 intr. & tr. make or cause to make a pop.
2 intr. & tr. (foll. by in, out, up, down, etc.) go, move, come, or put unexpectedly or in a quick or hasty manner (pop out to the shops; pop in for a visit; pop it on your head).
3 a intr. & tr. burst, making a popping sound. b tr. heat (popcorn etc.) until it pops.
4 intr. (often foll. by at) colloq. fire a gun (at birds etc.).
5 tr. sl. pawn.
6 tr. sl. inject (a drug etc.).
7 intr. (often foll. by up) (of a cricket-ball) rise sharply off the pitch.
--adv. with the sound of a pop (heard it go pop).

Idiom

in pop Brit. sl. in pawn. pop off colloq.
1 die.
2 quietly slip away (cf. sense 2 of v.). pop the question colloq. propose marriage. pop-shop Brit. sl. a pawnbroker's shop.
pop-up
1 (of a toaster etc.) operating so as to move the object (toast when ready etc.) quickly upwards.
2 (of a book, greetings card, etc.) containing three-dimensional figures, illustrations, etc., that rise up when the page is turned.
3 Computing (of a menu) able to be superimposed on the screen being worked on and suppressed rapidly.

pop, adj. & n. colloq.
--adj.
1 in a popular or modern style.
2 performing popular music etc. (pop group; pop star).
--n.
1 pop music.
2 a pop record or song (top of the pops).

Idiom

pop art art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, esp. as a critical comment on traditional fine art values. pop festival a festival at which popular music etc. is performed.

pop, n. esp. US colloq. father.

Etymology

abbr. of POPPA

THESAURUS

pop

Babbittish, Babbittry, Methuselah, Philistine, abba, abruptly, alcoholic drink, antediluvian, antique, back number, bad taste, bag, ballad, balloon, bang, bark, belly, belly out, beverage, bilge, billow, blast, bouge, bourgeois, bourgeois taste, bug, bulge, bump, burst, camp, campiness, campy, catch, chink, click, clink, clop, clump, clunk, common, commonplace, conservative, crack, crump, dad, daddy, dash, detonate, detonation, dilate, ding, dip, discharge, distend, dodo, drink, drinkable, dull thud, elder, explode, explosion, father, flick, flump, fogy, fossil, foster father, frosted, frosted shake, fud, fuddy-duddy, fulminate, fulmination, fusillade, general, genitor, go, go off, goggle, governor, granny, gunshot, has-been, hastily, high camp, high-camp, hit, hit tune, hock, homely, homespun, impetuously, impignorate, impropriety, impulsively, inappropriateness, indecency, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, inelegance, inelegancy, kitsch, kitschy, light music, like a flash, like a thunderbolt, liquid, liquor, longhair, low camp, low-camp, malt, matriarch, mid-Victorian, mortgage, mossback, nail, of a sudden, old, old believer, old crock, old dodo, old fogy, old liner, old man, old poop, old woman, old-timer, on short notice, ordinary, pa, pad, pap, papa, pappy, pat, pater, paterfamilias, patriarch, patter, philistinism, pitapat, pitter-patter, plebeian, pledge, plop, plump, plunk, pooch, poor taste, pop culture, pop music, pops, popular, popular music, popular song, potable, potation, pouch, pout, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, public, rap, reactionary, regular old fogy, relic, round out, salvo, shake, sharp, shot, sire, slap, slog, smack, smite, sock, soda, soda pop, soda water, soft drink, song hit, spout, square, stab, stagger, starets, startlingly, stepfather, sudden, suddenly, surprisingly, swat, swell, swell out, tap, tastelessness, the old man, thud, thump, tick, tinkle, tonic, traditionalist, try, tunk, unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unawares, unbecomingness, unexpectedly, unfittingness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, vernacular, volley, vulgar taste, vulgarism, vulgarity, vulgarness, whack, whirl, without notice, without warning

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pop

Snap

VB rap, snap, tap, knock, ping, click, clash, crack, crackle, crash, pop, slam, bang, blast, boom, clap, clang, clack, whack, wham, brustle, burst on the ear, crepitate, rump, blow up, blow, detonate.

Inexpectation

VB not expect, be taken by surprise, start, miscalculate, not bargain for, come upon, fall upon, be unexpected, come unawares, turn up, pop, drop from the clouds, come upon one, burst upon one, flash upon one, bounce upon one, steal upon one, creep upon one, come like a thunder clap, burst like a thunderclap, thunder bolt, take by surprise, catch by surprise, catch unawares, catch napping, yach, pounce upon, spring a mine upon, surprise, startle, take aback, electrify, stun, stagger, take away one's breath, throw off one's guard, astonish, dumbfound.

N inexpectation, non-expectation, false expectation, miscalculation, surprise, sudden burst, thunderclap, blow, shock, start, bolt out of the blue, wonder, eye opener, unpleasant surprise, pleasant surprise, nonexpectant, surprised, unwarned, unaware, off one's guard, inattentive, unexpected, unanticipated, unpredicted, unlooked for, unforeseen, unhoped for, dropped from the clouds, beyond expectation, contrary to expectation, against expectation, against all expectation, out of one's reckoning, unheard of, startling, surprising, sudden, unpredictable, unforeseeable (unknowable), abruptly, unexpectedly, surprisingly, plump, pop, a l'improviste, unawares, without notice, without warning, without a 'by your leave', like a thief in the night, like a thunderbolt, in an unguarded moment, suddenly, Int, heydey!, little did one think, little did one expect, nobody would ever suppose, nobody would ever think, nobody would ever expect, who would have thought? it beats the Dutch.