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vox pop, n. (a.) colloq.|vɒks pɒp|
Also voxpop.
[Abbrev. of vox populi s.v. vox 1.]
a. Popular opinion as represented by informal comments from members of the general public, esp. when used for broadcasting; statements or interviews of this kind.
1964Hall & Whannel Popular Arts ix. 225 In television..we could include..the use of the brief survey of popular opinion on any topic by means of the posed question (the so-called ‘vox pop’). Ibid. 257 The short interview and the occasional ‘vox pop’ of the local news and sports programmes on radio. 1968Listener 8 Feb. 164/2 A BBC camera crew went round Washington collecting vox pops—close-ups of men in the street saying pithily what they think of things. 1972D. Hurd Truth Game 59 Follow him close with the mike and get odds and ends of vox pop. 1975Listener 18 Sept. 377/2 The audience was asked for comments, and very dim the voxpops sounded after the fluency of the two main speakers. 1981Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Dec. 1501/5 There are wonderfully dreadful quotations in these chapters, including paragraphs of vox pop.
b. attrib. or as adj.
1966New Society 17 Mar. 5/3 A vox pop survey I made among 17 housewives of St Ives. 1967Punch 22 Nov. 794/1 Brandish a vox pop microphone in the concrete jungles and the cry..will recur monotonously, interspersed with blank looks. 1973G. Talbot Ten Seconds from Now iii. 35 ‘Vox pop’ interviews on what the king ought to do. 1983Listener 2 June 20/2 His suitability for the box is being questioned by whipper-snappers who would not have rated a vox-pop appearance..in the Fifties. 1985Spectator 5 Jan. 7/3 A recent sermon included a vox pop poll on who in the congregation, average age 70, was familiar with Michael's song ‘Thriller’. |