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popn.1

Brit. /pɒp/, U.S. /pɑp/
Forms: late Middle English–1500s poppe, late Middle English– pop, 1700s popp, 1800s pawp (Scottish).
Origin: An imitative or expressive formation.
Etymology: Imitative. Compare slightly earlier pop v.1 and later pop adv.
1.
a. A blow, a knock, a punch; a slight rap or tap.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] > a stroke or blow
dintc897
swengOE
shutec1000
kill?c1225
swipc1275
stroke1297
dentc1325
touchc1325
knock1377
knalc1380
swapc1384
woundc1384
smitinga1398
lush?a1400
sowa1400
swaipa1400
wapc1400
smita1425
popc1425
rumbelowc1425
hitc1450
clope1481
rimmel1487
blow1488
dinga1500
quartera1500
ruska1500
tucka1500
recounterc1515
palta1522
nolpc1540
swoop1544
push1561
smot1566
veny1578
remnant1580
venue1591
cuff1610
poltc1610
dust1611
tank1686
devel1787
dunching1789
flack1823
swinge1823
looder1825
thrash1840
dolk1861
thresh1863
mace-blow1879
pulsation1891
nosebleeder1921
slosh1936
smackeroo1942
dab-
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > a slight or light blow
touchc1325
tapc1400
popc1425
tickc1440
tipa1466
tit1546
bob1611
waffa1754
c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 4421 (MED) Philomene..ȝaff him..suche a poppe That he fel ouer his hors croppe.
c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 9300 (MED) He hadde lauȝt many a pop, For ther was many a strok ȝeuen.
1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 286 (MED) A poppe; vbi a strake.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Pap, Pawp, a blow, a thwack.
1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words 68 Gie that post a pop on the head wi' a bightle.
1935 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 10 May 11/5 Under the circumstances I wouldn't want you to take a pop at him, as you express it.
2003 People (Nexis) 23 Mar. 39 Practically every gag ends with somebody getting a pop on the nose.
†b. A humorous remark, a joke. Cf. crack n. 5. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > a jest or joke
gameOE
jape1377
bourda1387
mirthc1390
mowa1393
chapec1400
skauncec1440
sport?1449
popc1540
flirt1549
jest1551
merriment1576
shifta1577
facetiae1577
gig1590
pleasantry1594
lepidity1647
rallery1653
drollery1654
wit-crack1662
joco1663
pleasance1668
joke1670
jocunditya1734
quizzification1801
funniment1826
side-splitter1834
funniness1838
quizzery1841
jocularity1846
rib-tickler1855
jocosity1859
humorism1860
gag1863
gas1914
nifty1918
mirthquaker1921
rib1929
boffo1934
giggle1936
c1540 Image Ipocrysy i, in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 420 With your mery poppes: Thus youe make vs sottes, And play with vs boopepe.
1700 S. Centlivre Perjur'd Husband i. i. 2 Well, these indifferent Sparks charm more than all your cringing Pops.
c. Baseball. A ball hit in a very high, short arc, providing an easy catch. Frequently attributive, as pop fly (fly n.2 2b), pop foul, etc.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > batting > types of hit
skyscraper1842
single1851
grass trimmer1867
safe hit1867
roller1871
sacrifice1880
triple1880
two-bagger1880
sacrifice hit1881
pop-up1882
pop fly1884
fungo1887
bunt1889
safety1895
bunting1896
drive1896
hit and run1899
pinch hit1905
Texas leaguer1905
squeeze1908
hopper1914
scratch hit1917
squib1929
line-drive1931
nubber1937
lay-in1951
squeeze bunt1952
comebacker1954
moon shot1961
gapper1970
sacrifice fly1970
sacrifice bunt1974
1884 Boston Daily Globe 24 Sept. 2/6 (headline) Pop flies and sacrifice hits muffed and fumbled.
1935 J. T. Farrell Judgment Day viii. 185 A line single was driven to left, the pitcher picked a pop out of the air.
1945 Sun (Baltimore) 12 Mar. 10-0/5 A pamphlet which knocked the Doubleday legend higher than one of Babe Ruth's pop fouls.
1995 Fisher-Price Shopping Guide Spring 7/1 (advt.) Fisher-Price Baseball Training Centre... The motorized pitch-back machine has multiple settings for pop flies, line drives, or grounders.
d. slang. An injection of a narcotic drug.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a dose of > for injection
shot1889
spike1934
pop1935
needle1943
1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 118/1 Take a pop, to take an injection of morphine.
1956 R. Thorp Viper vi. 92 ‘Care for a pop now and again?’ This was a kick I hadn't made, I told him.
1970 N. Marsh When in Rome v. 126 I'm not hooked. Just the odd pop. Only a fun thing.
1990 S. King Stand (new ed.) xxxviii. 357 He had been addicted to the fine white powder he called ‘hehrawn’ for the last five years... He was..wishing he had a pop, just a small, minor skinpop.
2.
a. A short abrupt explosive sound.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > explosive sound > [noun] > popping sound
pop1591
pot-finger1592
popping1652
plunk1822
pop-out1836
cloop1848
bop1937
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Buchere The cheeke, and a pop with the mouth.
1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. 629 By the only regresse of the extended muscles into themselves..somewhiles with a noyse or pop.
1793 E. Harington Schizzo Genius of Man Pref. p. xxix They are let off like so many Indian crackers in a row; the pops are just heard, and the little bouncers left empty for ever!
1855 F. Chamier My Trav. II. vi. 91 The common pops of the squibs and crackers.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxix. 160 I cannot bear people to keep their minds bottled up for the sake of letting them off with a pop.
1883 Daily News 31 Aug. 6/2 The familiar pop of the champagne cork being very rarely heard.
1938 R. Hum Chem. for Engin. Students ii. 49 The gas..from the cathode, on applying a light, explodes with a slight ‘pop’, showing the presence of hydrogen.
1991 T. Palmer Menuhin vii. 119 Often unusual noises result—squeaks, pops and thuds.
2003 New Yorker 8 Dec. 142 Using jets of hot water, Bloat-O-Matic soaks and swells cork until it bursts out of bottle with a satisfying pop!
b. English regional (Lancashire). The length of time taken by a pop; a moment, an instant. rare.
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the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [noun] > moment or instant
hand-whileOE
prinkOE
start-while?c1225
twinkling1303
rese?c1335
prick1340
momenta1382
pointa1382
minutea1393
instant1398
braida1400
siquarea1400
twink14..
whip?c1450
movement1490
punct1513
pissing whilea1556
trice1579
turning of a hand1579
wink1585
twinklec1592
semiquaver1602
punto1616
punctilio of time1620
punctum1620
breathing1625
instance1631
tantillation1651
rapc1700
crack1725
turning of a straw1755
pig's whisper1780
jiffy1785
less than no time1788
jiff1797
blinka1813
gliffy1820
handclap1822
glimpsea1824
eyewink1836
thought1836
eye-blink1838
semibreve1845
pop1847
two shakes of a lamb's taila1855
pig's whistle1859
time point1867
New York minute1870
tick1879
mo?1896
second1897
styme1897
split-second1912
split minute1931
no-time1942
sec.1956
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Pop,..a short space. Lanc.
1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 582/1 Pop,..16. A short space.
c. The rapid opening of a pop valve; (also) the steam pressure at which a pop valve is set to open.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > control(s) > [noun] > valve > pop > opening of
pop1901
1901 M. M. Kirkman Locomotive Appliances 122 Should the valve close with too much drop of boiler pressure, move the screw-ring (C) to the left..until sufficient change has been accomplished. To increase the pop, move ring (C) to the right.
1958 Van Nostrand's Sci. Encycl. (ed. 3) 1447 A small ‘vernier’ safety valve giving less pressure drop between pop and close is installed.
2004 Internat. Jrnl. Heat & Fluid Flow 25 58 These valves have a pop action.
3.
a. A shot with a gun.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > a shot
pot-shot1592
shot1653
pop1657
pluff1663
round1690
whiff1837
tap1987
1657 W. Morice Coena quasi Κοινὴ xxiv. 249 They have onely faced the enemy,..given a pop or two, and raised a smoak.
1777 I. Jackman All World's Stage i. 8 Bring me the short blunderbuss that's hanging in the hall, and I'll take a pop at the whole covey.
1799 F. Lathom Men & Manners III. i. 9 For contradicting me, and chousing me out of my pop at you.
1807 Portfolio 22 Aug. 126/1 But once the guard let fly the pop, And Sam became receiver. The claret ran, it would not stop, He died of leaden fever.
1829 W. T. Moncrieff Giovanni in London (new ed.) ii. i You've quite made up your mind to have a pop at him?
1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin xv. 271 ‘Why doesn't we 'ave a pop at 'er?’ ‘'Ave a pop at 'er! She's twenty mile orf, if she's a hinch, an' yer knows as well as I does that none o' our ships 'ere 'as got hanti-haircraft guns wot'll 'it 'er at that range.’
1995 For Him Mag. Sept. 77/1 Immelmann had the bright idea of bolting a gun to the top wing of his plane so he could have a pop at the English aircraft.
b. slang. A pistol.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > pistol
pistolet1550
potguna1556
pistol?1560
snapper1587
pistoletto1647
pop1708
gun1744
cracker1751
stick1781
barking iron1785
barker1815
young gun1822
buffer1824
reporter1827
iron1828
flute1842
cannon1901
1708 Mem. right Villainous John Hall (ed. 4) 10 Pop, a Pistol.
1728 Street-robberies, Consider'd 33 Popps, Pistols.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. viii. 53 I gleaned a few things,—such as a pair of pops, silver-mounted.
1834 W. H. Ainsworth Rookwood II. iii. v. 360 His pops in his pocket.
1896 Harper's Mag. Apr. 784/2 Pops all put away, so she won't be finding one and be killing herself.
1992 J. Mowry Way Past Cool 255 We ain't nuthin but goddamn fools if we try an take Deek down with just the pussy little pops we got now.
c. A turn at doing something; an attempt; a go; a time.
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the world > action or operation > doing > [noun] > spell or bout of action
turnc1230
heatc1380
touch1481
pluck?1499
push?1560
bout1575
yoking1594
pull1667
tirl1718
innings1772
go1784
gamble1785
pop1839
run1864
gang1879
inning1885
shot1939
the world > action or operation > endeavour > [noun] > an attempt
tastec1330
assayc1386
proffera1400
proof?a1400
pluck?1499
saymenta1500
minta1522
attemptate1531
attempt1548
attemption1565
say1568
trice1579
offer1581
fling1590
tempt1597
essay1598
trial1614
tentative1632
molition1643
conamen1661
put1661
tentamen1673
conatus1722
shot1756
go1784
ettle1790
shy1824
hack1830
try1832
pop1839
slap1840
venture1842
stagger1865
flutter1874
whack1884
whirl1884
smack1889
swipe1892
buck1913
lash1941
wham1957
play1961
1839 Spirit of Times 10 Aug. 267/1 I'll go you twenty this pop.
1868 ‘M. Twain’ Let. 20 Nov. (1917) I. ix. 156 I am simply lecturing for societies, at $100 a pop.
1904 W. N. Harben Georgians 2 Ef I don't whack it to you this pop, old hoss, I'll eat my hat.
1928 P. G. Wodehouse Money for Nothing ii. 35 He decided to have a pop at it.
1976 R. Barnard Little Local Murder x. 133 I don't suppose he makes much more than seventy-five pee a pop for them.
2002 Independent (Nexis) 28 Nov. 23 The removal of his right to have people banged up for half a century at a pop.
4. A dot, a spot; a mere touch of something (also figurative and in extended use). Also: the mark made by a raddle on a sheep. Now chiefly Scottish.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > of something which makes a mark
touch1569
lickc1648
pop1718
society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > [noun] > dot
prickOE
punctilio1596
prick-mark1701
pop1718
1718 Mrs. Bradshaw in Lett. C'tess Suffolk (1824) I. 28 You are a pop nearer being a countess than you was last week.
c1840 J. D. Harding in W. G. Collingwood Life & Work J. Ruskin (1893) I. viii. 92 That marvellous pop of light across the foreground.
a1854 E. Grant Mem. Highland Lady (1988) I. xv. 303 The c, the e,..and the w and the u were all so like that except for the pop over the i,..it was..impossible to say which was which.
1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 138 The draft ewes..only receive a ‘pop’ or dot of the same tar from a round stick on the shoulder.
1957 Dumfries & Galloway Standard 6 July 16 B. F. ewe hogg missing off Gledenholm, red pop near hip.
2005 Essence (Nexis) Apr. 155 An oversize plant, for example, adds life and a pop of color.
5. Caribbean. Usually in plural. Any of several winter cherries (genus Physalis), the fruits of which have an inflated calyx, esp. P. pubescens and (more fully cow pops) P. angulata. Cf. pop vine n. at pop- comb. form .
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Solanaceae (nightshade and allies) > [noun] > physalis
alkekengi1440
winter cherry1548
red nightshade1578
winterberry1608
pop vine1750
Physalis1754
cow pops1848
Jerusalem cherry1884
1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 161 Pops; Lat. Alkekengi Indicum majus. This Plant hath..thin bluish capsular Pods, which inclose a round..Fruit of about the Bigness of a small Cherry.
1848 R. H. Schomburgk Hist. Barbados 610 Physalis barbadensis, Jacq. Pop Vine, Hughes. Horse Pop. Physalis angulata, Linn. Pops, Hughes. Cow Pop.
1970 E. T. Robertson & E. G. B. Gooding Bot. for Caribbean (ed. 2) xxiii. 197 The family [Solanaceae] is well represented in the West Indies. Herbs. Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum). Pops (Physalis spp.) [etc.].
1993 S. Carrington Wild Plants Barbados 92/2 Physalis angulata L., Cow Pops, Poppers.
6. colloquial. An effervescent or carbonated drink (originally ginger beer or champagne, now usually a non-alcoholic fizzy drink).
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the world > food and drink > drink > types or qualities of beverage > [noun] > effervescing drink
pop1812
fizz1864
fizzer1894
gaseosa1897
carbonate1982
1812 R. Southey Let. 18 July in Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 284 A new manufactory of a nectar, between soda-water and ginger-beer, and called pop, because ‘pop goes the cork’ when it is drawn.
1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 89 With plenty of ginger-beer..soda, and imperial pop.
1894 H. Drummond Lowell Lect. Ascent of Man 214 [A man], when he calls champagne fizz, or a less aristocratic beverage pop, is following in the wake of the inventors of Language.
1931 W. S. Maugham in Cosmopolitan Oct. 51/2 A bottle of pop tonight, my pet, and a slap-up dinner.
1969 L. Kennedy Very Lovely People ii. 106 The waiter said, ‘All I got is bottled pop. Take your choice.’
1993 M. Atwood Robber Bride xxviii. 196 The sinful cans of pop..lined up beside the mustard and relish.
7. British slang. The action of pawning something. Chiefly in in pop: in pawn, pawned. Cf. pop v.1 9, pop-shop n.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > [noun] > act of pawning
pignoration1549
limbo1590
pawning1592
impignoration1598
pawnage1624
pop1819
pawn1824
avuncularism1859
mosking1902
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > borrow money [phrase] > in pawn
at pawn1431
in pop1819
in (occasionally the) hock1859
on the shelf1859
1819 Ton (ed. 3) 46 This old Du Croc..complains of..T——n, whose wardrobe is in pop..and of milords Anglais of every description.
1866 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 292 ‘Great shame—put him in pop—gentleman's son’... I knew that her ‘put him in pop’ meant that I was pawned when a baby.
1886 J. K. Jerome Idle Thoughts (1896) 7 Yet what a piece of work a man makes of his first ‘pop’... He hangs about outside the shop..he enters..he comes out of the shop [etc.].
1924 J. H. Wilkinson Leeds Dial. Gloss. 169 To pawn anything is to ‘pop’ it, and when ‘popped’..it is then ‘i' pop’ i.e. in pawn.
1960 A. Sillitoe Fishing-boat Picture in Loneliness of Long-distance Runner 92 Pawnshops always keeping open late on a Friday so that women could get their husbands' suits out of pop for the week-end.
1979 Bull. Yorks. Dial. Soc. Summer 26 Ah borrad yor koit a day or to sin..kos ah hedant time ta get mine aht a pop.
8. colloquial.
a. American Football and Baseball. Speed or force, esp. on a ball or in the swing of a bat. Also: the ability or power necessary to hit, kick, or throw a ball with speed or force.
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1966 Fond du Lac (Wisconsin) Commonw. Reporter 26 Oct. 36/4 On his kicking, he has great form and good pop.
1978 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 10 May 15/3 His fastball had good pop on it.
1990 Sporting News Baseball Yearbk. Mar. 82/3 The Philadelphia outfield features a wealth of lefthanded hitters with some pop in their bats.
2002 Toronto Star (Nexis) 5 Mar. e6 Berg doubled in his first two at-bats, showing some pop to go along with his generally steady fielding.
b. The ability or energy required to make a jump; spec. (of a horse) the ability to jump fences well.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [noun] > leap > that jumps fence > ability to
pop1977
1977 Horse & Hound 25 Mar. 66/1 Genuine little pony with a good ‘pop’ and excellent mouth and manners.
1982 A. Barr & P. York Official Sloane Ranger Handbk. 159/1 Must have a good pop in him to pop over the fences.
1987 Field Nov. 66/2 This chestnut had the ‘pop’ of a showjumper, which he is, and was also extremely fast.
2004 Dallas Morning News (Nexis) 6 Mar. 16 c He said he believed he was on track to get the distance through the first two phases of the jump, but lacked the pop on the final part.

Phrases

P1.
† at a pop [compare Middle French tout a cop, tout a coup (c1450; French tout à coup), French tout d'un coup (17th cent.)] Obsolete in an instant, suddenly.
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a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. xviii. sig. L.viv At a poppe downe they descend into hell.
1843 T. Hood Mr. Withering's Consumption & its Cure in New Monthly Mag. Aug. 435 Instead of a lover's going off, at a pop, like Werter, it must be much more satisfactory..to see her victim, deliberately expiring by inches.
1857 W. W. Clapp tr. M. Uchard Fiammina ii. ii. 15 Singular scene, that at Murilla's—fainted away at a pop, and nobody can explain it.
P2.
† pops and pairs [apparently an alteration of post and pair n. at post n.4 2] Obsolete = post and pair n. at post n.4 2.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > post and pair
post1528
post and pair1581
pops and pairsc1780
c1780 M. Lonsdale Upshot in S. Gilpin Songs (1866) 276 At pops an' pairs laikt long an' sair.
1804 R. Anderson et al. Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 94 Pay me the tuppence I wan frae thee Ae neet at pops and pairs.
P3.
to have (also take) a pop at to attack verbally, to criticize (cf. senses 1a, 3a).
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1881 E. A. Freeman in W. R. W. Stephens Life & Lett. E. A. Freeman (1895) II. ix. 228 Prestige, you know, I always like to have a pop at.
1954 P. G. Wodehouse Jeeves & Feudal Spirit i. 12 But why didn't Florence tell Percy to go and have a pop at Stilton Cheesewright?
1999 H. Redknapp & D. McGovern 'Arry (new ed.) xii. 181 He took a pop at anything I did in the transfer market.
P4.
on the pop of rare about to, on the point of.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adverb] > near in time > about to or on the point of
in point to (also of)c1330
at (the) point toc1432
at the point ofa1450
go1483
on the pop of1922
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. iv. [Calypso] 64 I was on the pop of writing Blazes Boylan's.

Compounds

pop machine n. chiefly North American (originally) a machine which produces soda water; (now) a coin-operated machine which dispenses canned or bottled soft drinks after a specified amount of money is inserted into it.
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1879 Eau Claire (Wisconsin) Argus 24 July A good soda water, or ‘pop’ machine, with everything in complete order for manufacturing soda water.
1947 Council Bluffs (Iowa) Nonpareil 12 Mar. 2/1 Ravitz..put a nickel in a pop machine and got a bottle followed by 29 bottles, forcing her to call for help.
2000 Guelph (Ont.) Mercury (Nexis) 12 Aug. a4 [A] constable..caught Pozzo ‘red-handed’ with a crowbar attempting to force his way into a pop machine in front of a Geddes Street variety store.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

popn.2

Brit. /pɒp/, U.S. /pɑp/
Forms: 1500s poppe, 1700s– pop.
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: poppet n.
Etymology: Apparently shortened < poppet n. With sense 2 compare earlier poplet n., poppin n.
1. A fop. rare. Now English regional (Northumberland).
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > dandy
popa1500
miniona1513
prick-me-daintya1529
puppy?1544
velvet-coat1549
skipjack1554
coxcomb1567
musk cat?1567
physbuttocke1570
Adonis?1571
Adon1590
foretop1597
musk-cod1600
pretty fellow1600
sparkc1600
spangle-baby1602
flash1605
barber-monger1608
cocoloch1610
dapperling1611
fantastica1613
feather-cock1612
trig1612
jack-a-dandy?1617
gimcrack1623
satinist1639
powder puffa1653
fop1676
prig1676
foplinga1681
cockcomb1684
beau garçona1687
shape1688
duke1699
nab1699
smirk1699
beau1700
petty master1706
moppet1707
Tom Astoner1707
dapper1709
petit maître1711
buck1725
toupee1727
toupet1728
toupet-man1748
jemmy1753
jessamy1753
macaroni1764
majoc1770
monkeyrony1773
dandyc1780
elegant1780
muscadin1794
incroyable1797
beauty man1800
bang-up1811
natty1818
ruffian1818
exquisite1819
heavy swell1819
marvellous1819
bit of stuff1828
merveilleux1830
fat1832
squirt1844
dandyling1846
ineffable1859
guinea pig1860
Dundreary swell1862
masher1872
dude1877
mash1879
dudette1883
dand1886
heavy gunner1890
posh1890
nut1904
smoothie1929
fancy-pants1930
saga boy1941
fancy Dan1943
a1500 in H. A. Person Cambr. Middle Eng. Lyrics (1953) 42 When I come in to a schope for to say in principio þei bidine me goo forþ lewed poppe & worche & win my siluer so.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words 550 Pop, a fop.
†2. As a term of endearment, esp. to a girl or woman: darling, sweetheart. Also: a mistress, a kept woman. Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > love > terms of endearment > [noun] > of or to a girl > of or to a girl or woman
pigsneyc1390
pussy?a1560
wench1581
ladykin1632
pop1785
popsy1855
old top1856
ma mie1859
kitten1870
tootsy1895
toots1936
mi'jita1970
noona1975
amiga1984
mi'ja1984
unni1997
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > illicit intimacy > person > a mistress
chevesea700
wifeOE
bed-sister1297
concubine1297
leman1297
file1303
speciala1400
womanc1400
chamberer?a1425
mistress?a1439
cousin1470
doxy?1515
doll1560
pinnacea1568
nobsya1575
lier-by1583
sweetheart1589
she-friend1600
miss1606
underput1607
concupy1609
lig-by1610
factoress1611
leveret1617
night-piece1621
belly-piece1632
dolly1648
lie-bya1656
madamc1660
small girl1671
natural1674
convenient1676
lady of the lake1678
pure1688
tackle1688
sultana1703
kind girl1712
bosom-slave1728
pop1785
chère amie1792
fancy-woman1819
hetaera1820
fancy-piece1821
poplolly1821
secondary wife1847
other woman1855
fancy-girl1892
querida1902
wifelet1983
1785 G. A. Bellamy Apol. Life II. 39 A few nights after my benefit, Lord Tyrawley came into the room smiling, and said,..‘Pop, I have got you a husband!’
1825 T. Creevey in H. Maxwell Creevey Papers (1904) II. 87 When I look at these three young women, and at this brazen-faced Pop who is placed over them,..the marriage appears to me the wickedest thing I ever heard of.
1898 Tit-Bits 11 June 201/1 Well, pop, since I'm your father, I'm going to give you a ticket to the circus.
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pop.n.3

Brit. /pɒp/, U.S. /pɑp/
Forms: 1800s– pop., 1800s– pop (without point).
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: population n.1
Etymology: Shortened < population n.1
= population n.1, esp. in statistical contexts.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > science of mankind > [noun] > study of populations > terminology
pop.1818
1818 J. E. Worcester Gazetteer of U.S. 237/2 Perquimans, co. E. part of N.C. Pop. 6,052. Slaves 2,017. Chief town, Hertford.
1880 W. Whitman Daybks. & Notebks. (1978) III. 616 Pop of Sarnia 5000.
1910 Encycl. Brit. XI. 549/1 Geelong, a seaport..situated on an extensive land-locked arm of Port Phillip known as Corio Bay... Pop. of the city proper (1901) 12,399.
1961 P. G. Wodehouse Ice in Bedroom iii. 25 The town's Pop, as the guide book curtly terms it, is four thousand nine hundred and sixteen.
1999 J. Raban Passage to Juneau vii. 367 If one wanted to explain this couple's presence in Ketchikan, you'd have to look..to the stringencies of life in Park City, pop. 4,468.
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popn.4

Brit. /pɒp/, U.S. /pɑp/
Forms: also with capital initial.
Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: papa n.2
Etymology: Apparently variant of papa n.2 Compare slightly later pap n.3 and later poppa n., pops n.
colloquial (chiefly North American).
1. One's father; a father.Pop is chiefly used as a form of address, or preceded by a possessive (as ‘my pop’); it is also used without possessive (e.g., in quot. 1904) in the manner of a proper name.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > father > [noun]
fatherOE
sirec1250
authora1398
flesh-fathera1400
genitor1447
daddy1523
dad1533
bab1598
patera1600
dada1672
relieving officer1677
papa1681
pappy1722
baba1771
pa1773
governor1783
paw1826
fatherkin1839
pop1840
bap1842
pap1844
da1851
baba1862
puppa1885
pops1893
poppa1897
pot and pan1900
papasana1904
daddy-o1913
bapu1930
baby-father1932
abba1955
birth father1977
1840 Knickerbocker 16 207 ‘Pop!’ screamed a white-headed urchin from the house, ‘Mam says supper's ready.’
a1854 R. M. Bird City Looking Glass (1933) iv. vi. 107 By all that's wonderful, that's pop! Father,..what are you doing in Philadelphia?
1904 H. R. Martin Tillie iii. 33 Are you feelin' too mean to go help pop?
1948 Denison (Texas) Herald 1 July 1/3 Butch..was vacationing with his pop at the popular National Park Service Lake Texoma resort.
1973 P. Dickinson Gift v. 77 ‘Oh yes, Pop' please,’ said Sonia.
1990 J. Morrow Only Begotten Daughter (1991) i. i. 22 Not sure you want to be a pop?
2. In extended use as a form of address to (or informal title for) any older man.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > person > old person > old man > [noun]
old maneOE
bevara1275
beauperec1300
vieillard1475
Nestor?c1510
old gentleman1526
haga1529
velyarda1529
old fellow?1555
old sire1557
granfer1564
vecchioc1570
ageman1571
grave-porer1582
grandsire1595
huddle-duddle1599
elder1600
pantaloon1602
cuffc1616
crone1630
old boya1637
codger?1738
dry-beard1749
eld1796
patriarch1819
oubaas1824
old chap1840
pap1844
pop1844
tad1877
old baas1882
senex1898
finger1904
AK1911
alte kacker1911
poppa stoppa1944
madala1960
Ntate1975
1844 in Amer. Speech (1965) 40 131 And I'll go down to ole birginy, And marry pop Miller's sister.
1889 Sporting Life (Philadelphia) 29 May 2/6 ‘Pop’ Chadwick is among those who are opposed to the wire.
1943 K. Tennant Ride on Stranger vii. 72 You've just told us, pop,..that if the cops catch up on you, you'll be lining a cell.
1979 P. Gosling Zero Trap iii. 29 Can somebody give me a hand with Pop, here? He still wants to stay sleepies for a while.
2004 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 22 June 43 Old Pop..was a chubby gnome of a bloke with red cheeks and nose and a Walt Disney cartoon smile.
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Popn.5

Brit. /pɒp/, U.S. /pɑp/
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Perhaps a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: lollipop n.; Latin popīna.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; probably either < -pop (in lollipop n., because the meetings were originally held in the rooms of Mrs. Hatton, who kept the lollipop shop (compare quot. 1844)), or < classical Latin popīna cookshop (see popinal adj.).
At Eton College: (originally) a social club and debating society, founded in 1811; (now) the body of prefects at the college.
ΘΚΠ
society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > pupil at specific school > society at Eton
Pop1844
1844 Times 16 May 7/5 In the Debating Society—‘Pop’ it used to be irreverently called—in that dear, dark little oblong room over Miss Hatton's.
1883 J. B. Richards Seven Years at Eton xxxiii. 366 He [sc. W. W. Wood] was one of the most fluent speakers at ‘Pop’.
1902 G. W. E. Russell in Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 733/2 He [sc. Gladstone at Eton] was seen to the greatest advantage..in the debates of the Eton Society, learnedly called ‘The Literati’ and vulgarly ‘Pop’.
1954 Times 4 Nov. 6/4 Never mind if you were the shyest new boy who had achieved III Form or a distinguished member of ‘Pop’—breakfast was there.
2002 Re: Arsenals new ground in alt.sports.soccer.arsenal (Usenet newsgroup) 14 Oct. John Porcella was never my fag at Eton, nor was he ever, so far as I'm aware, a member of Pop.
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† popn.6

Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown.
English regional. Obsolete. rare.
The redwing, Turdus iliacus.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Turdus (thrush) > turdus iliacus (redwing)
wing-thrush1544
swinepipe1649
redwing1668
windle1677
winnarda1698
wind-thrusha1705
redwing fieldfare1767
redwing thrush1768
wind-throstle1826
pop1848
whin-thrush1848
Swedish nightingale1879
1848 Zoologist 6 2258 The redwing is a ‘pop’.
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Popn.7

Brit. /pɒp/, U.S. /pɑp/
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: English popular concert , popular n.
Etymology: Shortened either < popular concert ( < popular adj. + concert n.), or directly < popular n. 3 (although this is first attested slightly later). Compare pop n.8
Usually in plural. A concert of popular classical music (see popular adj. 4b).Also associated with pop n.8
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > [noun] > concert > types of
Philharmonic concert1740
benefit-concert1759
chamber concert1760
recital1762
Dutch concert1774
concert performance1777
philharmonica1796
musical soirée1821
sacred concert1832
soirée musicale1836
promenade concert1839
pianoforte recital1840
ballad concert1855
piano recital1855
Monday pop1862
Pop1862
promenade1864
popular1865
Schubertiad1869
recitative1873
organ recital1877
pop concert1880
smoker1887
smoke concert1888
café concert1891
prom1902
smoke-ho1918
smoking-concert1934
hootenanny1940
opry1940
Liederabend1958
1862 ‘G. Eliot’ in Life (1887) 355 We have been to a Monday Pop, to hear Beethoven's Septett.
1891 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) 14 Dec. 2/6 The Saturday Pops in Newcastle are in a bad way.
1912 Times 25 Dec. 9/3 The audiences..consisted largely of the former habitués of the Monday ‘Pops’.
1962 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 26 Aug. el6/4 The Pops fill a space in the scheme of things musical, like band concerts, which have been called ‘the poor man's symphony’.
2004 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 12 May 17 Carl Davis, the man who inspired Liverpool's Summer Pops, conducts his own Summer Pops concerts at the Philharmonic Hall.

Derivatives

ˈpoppite n. now rare a person who goes to or performs at popular concerts.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > pop musician
poppite1895
pop star1922
sender1935
popster1963
society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [noun] > of pop music
poppite1895
pop fan1944
teenybopper1966
weeny-bopper1972
1895 Westm. Gaz. 5 Nov. 3/2 The death of that old and famous ‘Poppite’, Sir Charles Hallé.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 13 May 1/3 The itinerant muffin-man who vexes the souls of devout ‘Poppites’ on Saturday afternoons.
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popn.8adj.

Brit. /pɒp/, U.S. /pɑp/
Forms: in sense A. 3 usually with capital initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: popular adj.
Etymology: Shortened < popular adj. With quot. 1862 at sense A. 1a compare Pop n.7
A. n.8
1.
a. Popular music. Also as a count noun: a popular song or piece of music.Since the late 1950s used to refer to a broad range of music characterized by a strong melody and beat, and the use of electric instruments and amplification. Also used spec. of music intended to have wide appeal and commercial success, as distinct from other forms of popular music such as rock music, dance music, soul music, etc.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [noun] > qualities of music generally
formality1531
humoura1568
languor1751
morbidezza1833
pop1862
go1882
monophony1890
jazziness1916
blueness1929
linearity1947
funkiness1957
spikiness1962
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [noun]
pop1862
sounds1955
1862 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 26 Nov. (1956) IV. 67 There is too much ‘Pop’ for the thorough enjoyment of the chamber music.
1935 Hot News Aug. 19/1 Turn the record over and you have another winner—‘Add a Little Wiggle’—a masterpiece made out of a song-and-dance ‘pop’.
1954 Billboard 13 Nov. 38 The weight of local sponsorship [of deejay programs is] most evident in rhythm & blues then country & western and finally pop.
1967 Crescendo Feb. 23/2 A pop that will only last a couple of weeks.
1970 Observer 20 Sept. 26/1 In the world of pop, the death of Jimi Hendrix..will seem as if Tchaikovsky or Mozart had also been struck down at only 24.
1995 City Paper (Baltimore) 25 Oct.-1 Nov. 30/2 A celestial combination of airy R&B and acoustic hippie pop.
b. top of the pops n. chiefly British the best-selling recorded song or piece of music at a given time; (hence in extended use) anything highly successful or popular.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [noun] > one who or that which is successful > that which is successful > and popular
catch-on1895
boff1943
boffo1950
top of the pops1956
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > quality of being approvable or acceptable > popularity > [noun] > that which is
catch-on1935
top of the pops1956
society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > type of record
pre-release1871
record album1904
re-release1907
ten-inch1908
twelve-incher1909
demonstration record1911
pressing1912
swinger1924
repressing1927
transcription1931
long-player1932
rush release1935
pop record1937
album1945
demonstration disc1947
pop disc1947
pop single1947
long-play1948
picture disc1948
781949
single1949
forty-five1950
demo disc1952
EP1952
shellac1954
top of the pops1956
gold disc1957
acetate1962
platinum disc1964
chartbuster1965
miss1965
cover1966
reissue1966
pirate label1968
rock record1968
thirty-three (and a third)1968
sampler1969
white-label1970
double album1971
dubplate1976
seven-inch1977
mini-album1980
joint1991
1956 Melody Maker 7 Apr. 1 (heading) Top of the Pops. With this issue, Melody Maker introduces a regular weekly listing of the best-selling ‘popular’ records of Great Britain.
1965 New Statesman 16 Apr. 598/3 If Mr Stewart is top of the Tory pops, other ministers are also high up in the charts.
1974 Listener 7 Nov. 593/3 Twiddling his radio dial to hear what is top of the pops.
1989 Money Observer Jan. 101/4 In a move designed to make Britain's third largest clearer top of the pops for savers, Lloyds has launched the Instant Savings Account.
1998 Grocer 30 May (Inst. Grocery Distribution Suppl.) 13/1 (advt.) Our entire organisation is totally committed to keeping us ‘top of the pops’ amongst consumers and customers alike.
2. Popular culture. Cf. sense B. 2.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > quality of being approvable or acceptable > popularity > [noun] > things that appeal to popular taste
pop1958
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [noun] > artistic treatment or style > types of
grotesque1561
charging1569
gusto1662
grand manner1695
manner1706
flatnessa1719
style1801
low key1803
mannerism1803
daguerreotype1850
chic1851
conventionalization1880
Louis Philippe1908
stylization1908
convention1926
historicism1939
pop1958
1958 Observer 23 Mar. 14/3 As a sop to pop, the gallants on the benches at the sides of the stage could be TV personalities.
1969 Listener 17 July 92/2 If Pop means mass media and consumer goods, ads and comics, Coke bottles and plastic, what then can it have to do with Art?
2000 Philadelphia City Paper 27 Apr. 109/1 It's an appropriate finale for Wes Craven's pomo-pop phenomenon.
3. Usually with capital initial. = pop art n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > pop art
pop art1956
pop1962
pop painting1962
agitpop1968
popism1980
1962 Listener 9 Aug. 217/3 All three of the painters are adherents of the new school of ‘pop’.
1972 E. Lucie-Smith in C. B. Cox & A. E. Dyson 20th-cent. Mind III. xvi. 470 The first example of Pop is now generally conceded to have been a small collage made by the English painter Richard Hamilton..in 1956.
1977 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 126 47/2 Out of Léger came aspects of Pop: in particular that aspect known as Roy Lichtenstein.
2004 Art in Amer. (Nexis) 1 Apr. 130 When it first appeared on the art scene in the early 1960s, Richard Artschwager's work seemed situated somewhere between Pop and Minimalism.
B. adj.
1. Of music, a song, etc.: popular; in a style considered to have popular appeal. In later use: designating a type of popular music intended to have wide commercial appeal (see note at sense A. 1a). Also: performing, consisting of, or concerned with this type of music.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [adjective]
popular1730
pop1910
pop-style1954
poppy1967
1910 Variety 27 Aug. 4 The Criterion was a ‘pop’ vaudeville house.
1921 Variety 25 Nov. 8 Furman and Nash dealt up pop songs as vaudeville wants and likes.
1954 Unicorn Bk. 1953 320/1 A magazine..each December publishes a list of the year's top pop music and musicians.
1962 D. Lessing Golden Notebk. i. 102 I remember the sharp feeling of dislocation it gave me to hear the pop-song in London.
1974 J. Cooper Women & Super Women 9 During the holidays they..play pop music too loudly for their parents' liking.
1996 Face Sept. 226/1 Pop promos show Euroslop disco divas in catsuits.
2000 Ralph 7 July 154/4 Now they've discovered pop tunes and disco grooves.
2. Appealing or intended to appeal to popular taste; spec. (of a technical, scientific, or academic subject) popularized, presented in a form accessible to the general public. Frequently depreciative.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > clearness, lucidity > simplifying, popularization > [adjective] > generally intelligible
popular1573
exoterical1637
vulgar1643
exoteric1656
simplified1772
popularized1839
while-you-wait1929
pop1956
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [adjective] > qualities of music generally
wanton1583
martial1609
hesychastic1694
systaltic1694
figureless1887
ethnic1912
novelty1915
treacly1930
Afro1938
soft-focused1942
Afro-Caribbean1947
pop1956
toppy1956
shit-kicking1961
spacy1967
prog1976
loungy1977
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [adjective] > types of artistic treatment or style
antica1536
Moresque1611
barbaric1667
massive1723
popular1730
maniéré1743
regency1811
tedesco1814
massy1817
Barbaresque1831
sensualistic1838
broad1849
conventional1851
expressional1856
tight1891
stylized1898
distressed1940
pop1956
transgressive1969
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > quality of being approvable or acceptable > popularity > [adjective] > appealing to popular taste
pop1956
1956 College Eng. 18 115/2 On the other side, Hazard is one of the young academicians now writing pop arts criticism for the scholastic publications.
1962 Punch 12 Sept. 390/2 A highly competent performer on these pop-science occasions.
1977 Time 14 Mar. 43/1 Most of the Morgan message is standard to all the pop self-help books that publishers have been churning out ever since Dale Carnegie and Norman Vincent Peale reaped their first millions.
1994 Homiletic & Pastoral Rev. Feb. 72/1 The contributors..are not always very critical of the pop psychology and anthropology they adopt.
2003 Independent 13 Jan. i. 13/1 The Government's new ‘pop science’ curriculum will produce a generation of school-leavers who will be politically opinionated, but scientifically ignorant.

Compounds

C1.
a. General attributive.
pop album n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > [noun] > music book > pop music
pop album1941
1941 Lima (Ohio) News 21 Dec. 10/4 Take a squint at the new RCA quints! The quints being new pop albums.
1970 Times 17 Feb. 17/5 Pop albums will go up from £1 17s. 5d. to £1 19s. 11d.
1994 Face Oct. 46/2 ‘Bedtime Stories’ is a pop album which is always what Madonna has done best.
pop ballad n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > popular song
song hit1888
pop ballad1924
rocker1947
1924 Lancaster (Ohio) Daily Eagle 30 Sept. 4/2 (radio listings) WFI, Los Angeles, (469) 8:45 organ; 10. dance; 11. vocal, instrumental; 12. ‘Pop’ ballads.
1964 Punch 28 Oct. 658/2 Those sentimental pop-ballads of the 'thirties.
1994 Denver Post 16 Jan. g2/3 A subgenre, somewhere between too-sweet pop ballads and ostentatious art-rock.
pop band n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > band > type of
waits1298
consort1587
wait player1610
wind music1650
the fiddles1676
military band1775
German band1819
street band1826
brass band1834
promenade band1836
horn-band1849
pipe band1867
wind-band1876
Hungarian band1882
jazz band1916
jazz orchestra1916
big band1919
road band1922
Schrammel quartet1924
showband1926
spasm band1926
dance-band1927
marching band1930
name band1932
ork1933
silver band1933
sweet band1935
Schrammel orchestra1938
pop band1942
jug band1946
steel band1949
rehearsal band1957
skiffle band1957
ghost band1962
support band1969
support group1969
scratch band1982
1942 Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune 30 Sept. 2/1 The promotion..gives him the lead in the dash among ‘pop’ bands to the top of the heap.
1967 Listener 16 Feb. 229/1 Some acoustical engineers in the United States believe that the sound produced by teenage pop bands is actually damaging to human ears.
2001 Times 8 June ii. 23/1 A collection of bite-sized clips of pop bands, adverts or television bloopers from the past few decades.
pop concert n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > [noun] > concert > types of
Philharmonic concert1740
benefit-concert1759
chamber concert1760
recital1762
Dutch concert1774
concert performance1777
philharmonica1796
musical soirée1821
sacred concert1832
soirée musicale1836
promenade concert1839
pianoforte recital1840
ballad concert1855
piano recital1855
Monday pop1862
Pop1862
promenade1864
popular1865
Schubertiad1869
recitative1873
organ recital1877
pop concert1880
smoker1887
smoke concert1888
café concert1891
prom1902
smoke-ho1918
smoking-concert1934
hootenanny1940
opry1940
Liederabend1958
1880 ‘G. Eliot’ Jrnl. 4 Dec. (1998) 214 Went to our first Pop.Concert and heard Norman Neruda, Piatti, etc.
1963 ‘D. Shannon’ Death of Busybody iv. 51 I went to the Hollywood Bowl... It was a pop-concert night, Gershwin.
1994 Arena Sept. 13/2 There's been a lot of nostalgic guff written about Woodstock which was, in fact, only a pop concert in a field.
pop disc n.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > type of record
pre-release1871
record album1904
re-release1907
ten-inch1908
twelve-incher1909
demonstration record1911
pressing1912
swinger1924
repressing1927
transcription1931
long-player1932
rush release1935
pop record1937
album1945
demonstration disc1947
pop disc1947
pop single1947
long-play1948
picture disc1948
781949
single1949
forty-five1950
demo disc1952
EP1952
shellac1954
top of the pops1956
gold disc1957
acetate1962
platinum disc1964
chartbuster1965
miss1965
cover1966
reissue1966
pirate label1968
rock record1968
thirty-three (and a third)1968
sampler1969
white-label1970
double album1971
dubplate1976
seven-inch1977
mini-album1980
joint1991
1947 Lima (Ohio) News 13 Apr. 2/1 We also have a Freddy Martin ‘pop’ disc.
1973 R. Parkes Guardians iii. 64 His income as a disc-jockey; his profits from the few pop-discs he cut; and..his chairman's salary.
2004 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 3 Jan. d1 Western Romance—a smart, challenging pop disc full of urban edge and left-field sonic touches.
pop fan n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [noun] > of pop music
poppite1895
pop fan1944
teenybopper1966
weeny-bopper1972
1944 Lima (Ohio) News 26 Nov. 4/8 Give that ‘pop’ fan on your list Blues by Basie.
1966 B.B.C. Handbk. 44 They have to cater for..the ‘pop’ fan.
1995 Select Mar. 50 Being a pop fan is about more than the music. It's about starlust too.
pop festival n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > [noun] > music festival
stethva1612
festival1753
music festival1790
musical festival1804
Eisteddfod1822
Sängerfest1865
mod1891
Oireachtas1896
songfest1903
biennial1928
pop festival1951
folkfest1963
fleadh1966
rockfest1966
fleadh cheoil1972
festie1988
1951 Council Bluffs (Iowa) Nonpareil 18 Mar. 22/1 This special Spring ‘Pop’ festival will be given in the Peony Park ballroom at 8:30.
1967 Mountain Democrat-Times (Placerville, Calif.) 13 July c7/2 The Who, one of England's top ‘mod’ acts, and recently the sensation of the Monterey Pop Festival.
2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 14 Oct. b2/1 Representatives of the Rolling Stones said yesterday that the rugose rockers would be performing..in the Harborfest pop festival.
pop group n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > small band or pop group
group1927
combination1928
combo1935
skiffle group1953
pop group1963
supergroup1968
rap group1969
garage band1974
hair band1989
popular beat combo1990
covers band1991
1963 Times 17 May 7/5 Two people were killed and seven injured, including six members of a Salisbury ‘pop’ group.
1977 ‘E. Crispin’ Glimpses of Moon viii. 147 Ten minutes alone inside the tent, with Miss Bale to keep intruders away, and that pop group to cover up any noise.
2003 Vibe Feb. 81/1 Imagine the challenges faced by a teen pop group's front man who decides to do a 180 and sing hard-core R&B for his solo debut.
pop lyric n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > [noun] > lyrics
wordseOE
ditty1552
recitative1659
testo1724
lyric1876
pop lyric1960
verbal1964
bars1994
1960 Guardian 22 July 10/2 The committee have found that pop lyrics are drivel and often debasing.
1980 News (Frederick, Maryland) 16 Dec. a7/4 Paul McCartney composes successful pop lyrics.
2004 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 28 Nov. 67 With the simplicity of a pop lyric, that verse expresses the terrible numbness of romantic loss.
pop number n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > [noun] > pop piece
pop number1921
schlager1934
hit song1942
B-side1962
1921 Variety 25 Nov. 8/4 Harmony Queens, four women, sang pop numbers.
1945 S. Hughes in C. Madge Pilot Papers 76 The term Dance Music is used here to denote..the playing and singing of ‘pop’ numbers as opposed to the cult of ‘Jazz’.
1994 Minnesota Monthly Sept. 98/1 A high-strung afternoon of classical music, turn-of-the-century favorites, ethnic tunes, pop numbers, [etc.].
pop opera n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > opera > [noun] > type of
comic opera1706
grand opera1720
operetta1741
opera comique1742
burletta1748
opera buffa1783
mezzo carattere1806
opera seria1808
light opera1813
tragédie lyrique1823
opera semiseria1825
opera bouffe1842
operette1871
rescue opera1943
Peking opera1953
monodrama1954
opera magica1956
pop opera1964
bouffe-
1964 Times 11 July 5/4 The composer was Malcolm Williamson, whose ‘pop’ opera Our Man in Havana has proved a success at Sadler's Wells.
1982 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald Jrnl. 24 Sept. b7/2 Never before have music and imagery..been so soaringly blended as in this defiantly unorthodox pop opera.
2004 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 May c1 ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’..was the template for the pop opera phenomenon that catapulted London to the forefront of musical drama for much of the late 20th century.
pop record n.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > type of record
pre-release1871
record album1904
re-release1907
ten-inch1908
twelve-incher1909
demonstration record1911
pressing1912
swinger1924
repressing1927
transcription1931
long-player1932
rush release1935
pop record1937
album1945
demonstration disc1947
pop disc1947
pop single1947
long-play1948
picture disc1948
781949
single1949
forty-five1950
demo disc1952
EP1952
shellac1954
top of the pops1956
gold disc1957
acetate1962
platinum disc1964
chartbuster1965
miss1965
cover1966
reissue1966
pirate label1968
rock record1968
thirty-three (and a third)1968
sampler1969
white-label1970
double album1971
dubplate1976
seven-inch1977
mini-album1980
joint1991
1937 Hammond (Indiana) Times 26 Dec. 20/2 10:00, WMAQ—Sunshine hour of late pop records.
1961 H. E. Bates Day of Tortoise 60 She played pop records such as What Do You Want If You Don't Want Money?
1996 Big Issue 5 Aug. 35/1 Where are those two dodgy-looking geezers Cracknell normally hangs around with making classic and inventive pop records?
pop single n.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > type of record
pre-release1871
record album1904
re-release1907
ten-inch1908
twelve-incher1909
demonstration record1911
pressing1912
swinger1924
repressing1927
transcription1931
long-player1932
rush release1935
pop record1937
album1945
demonstration disc1947
pop disc1947
pop single1947
long-play1948
picture disc1948
781949
single1949
forty-five1950
demo disc1952
EP1952
shellac1954
top of the pops1956
gold disc1957
acetate1962
platinum disc1964
chartbuster1965
miss1965
cover1966
reissue1966
pirate label1968
rock record1968
thirty-three (and a third)1968
sampler1969
white-label1970
double album1971
dubplate1976
seven-inch1977
mini-album1980
joint1991
1947 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Courier 26 Oct. 11/5 (advt.) Pop singles now in stock: How Soon—Jack Owens; The Little old Mill—Sammy Kaye; Fun and Fancy free—Phil Harris.
1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 252 Pop singles contain the same amount as a 10-inch 78, whereas e.p. records contain perhaps double.
2004 Evening Standard (Nexis) 3 Dec. 6 Still only 21, the impish Liverpudlian already has..two pop singles and now a Christmas blockbuster..under her belt.
pop star n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > pop musician
poppite1895
pop star1922
sender1935
popster1963
1922 Broadway Brevities Nov. 17 Who is it..who is said to stage the most elaborate parties on Broadway, where many pop stars are steady visitors?
1949 Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune 21 Aug. 6/3 It will be devoted mostly to popular recording artists, but also such pop stars as Nelson Eddy will be dwelled upon in the series.
1967 Listener 23 Feb. 271/2 We were taken, step by step, through the process of manufacturing a pop star.
1996 Loaded Sept. 60/2 Every self-respecting pop star has exotic pets.
2015 I. F. Mahaney Pop Star 14 A professional songwriter writes songs with the pop star's style of music in mind.
pop world n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [noun] > of pop music > collectively
pop world1959
1959 ‘F. Newton’ Jazz Scene i. 22 Jazz has made much of its way as part of the pop world.
1973 Melody Maker 25 Aug. 27 In the pop world, the rule is that musicians are a special breed.
2004 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 15 July d7 She has to be adjudged right up there with..all the other leading female figures of the moment in the pop world.
b. Objective.
pop singer n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > singer of other types of music > [noun] > pop-singer
pop singer1936
sweet singer1936
1936 Arcadia (Calif.) Tribune 10 Sept. 2/3 Deane Janis, ‘pop’ singer, and Suzanne Fischer, newest find of the Metropolitan Opera Company, will be heard in the musical portions of the show.
1973 J. Wainwright Pride of Pigs 30 The pop singer finished his protest song and there was a thin ripple of applause.
1995 Daily Tel. 7 June 17/4 Clever self-promotion only gets an author or a pop singer in the public eye.
2004 R. Cohn Pop Princess v. 33 She was going to go after that record deal for real—only she didn't want to be a pop singer, or a gospel singer.
pop singing n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > singing of other music
operatics1845
folk-singing1907
lieder-singing1937
pop singing1945
torch singing1947
protest-singing1966
rapping1979
MC-ing1984
1945 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 14 Mar. 18/2 Tibbett decided to get into pop singing when he hears how much income tax the crooners were paying.
1962 Times 28 Feb. 5/4 An atmosphere more suggestive of pop-singing..than great artistry.
1992 Atlantic July 2/3 (heading) Nat King Cole's hiply confiding tone..set a fresh standard for pop singing.
2015 J. Rogan Ray Davies vii. 111 Since his retirement from pop singing at the end of the Fifties, the former Teenage Rage had relocated to Wales.
c. Similative.
pop-style adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [adjective]
popular1730
pop1910
pop-style1954
poppy1967
1954 Hillsboro (Ohio) Press Gaz. 7 May 1/3 Pop style music will be available for dancing.
1963 Times 24 May 15/7 The pop-style hymn-settings of John Gardner.
2004 People (Nexis) 9 May 37 The outburst will rock a jazz music industry not used to pop-style bitching.
pop-styled adj.
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1958 High Fidelity June 108/3 Pop-styled vocal choruses are also common in records by present-day country artists.
1974 Publishers Weekly 26 Aug. 302/2 It's a pop-styled run-through of the big moments, great plays and subway series heroics.
2000 Mayo News 5 July (Lifestyle section) 6/5 We've got..a couple of hard ghetto ballads, and a couple of pop-styled ballads.
d. Designating music regarded as being a particularly melodic or commercially orientated variety of the specified genre, as pop-metal, pop-punk, pop-rock, etc.
ΚΠ
1960 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 26 Nov. (Entertainment section) 12/2 In contrast to the Hawaiian melodies of the Surfers, there is the amazingly versatile western, pop rock and roll arrangements featured by the Commodores.
1969 Rolling Stone (Electronic ed.) 27 Dec. Tired of being another British blues band, the group has said goodbye to Elmore James and is moving into the pop-rock field.
1981 New Musical Express (Electronic ed.) 17 Oct. One strangely pop-punk LP as The Boys Next Door, called Door, Door.
1989 Spin Oct. 99/2 Tone Loc stumbles into pop metal.
2003 Daily Tel. 31 July 21/4 They are a typical pretty-boy, pop-punk group—the kind the UK produces in droves.
C2.
pop-cultural adj. of or relating to pop culture.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [adjective] > specific types or forms of
lowa1387
primitive1838
pre-revolution1860
metronymic1868
pre-feudal1870
prelogical1880
polyzoic1886
pre-agricultural1898
pre-civil1902
pre-feudalic1907
subcultural1909
protocultural1920
pre-independencea1922
apparented1934
sensate1937
patrimonial1946
non-literate1948
inner-directed1950
underground1953
pop-cultural1963
technopolitan1965
1963 Dædalus Winter 22 Available critiques of pop-cultural depravities (from Playboy to the National Geographic) and compilations of economic facts about massification..are, to be sure, of some help.
1980 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 9 May 19/3 Anyone who goes to a pop concert is exposing himself to the pop cultural mainstream.
2000 New Statesman 3 July 9 In pop-cultural terms, the north/south divide is good knockabout stuff.
pop culture n. culture based on popular taste rather than that of an educated elite, usually commercialized and made widely available by the mass media.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > cultures by class
popular culture1854
proletkult1919
pop culture1959
midcult1960
white bread1996
1959 C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 73 It's my aim..to bring quality culture material to the pop culture masses.
1978 Encounter July 96/1 On the debit side..are the evils of ‘development’ and the pap of pop culture.
2005 Entertainment Weekly (Nexis) 24 June 144 Pop culture is now so drenched in glib 'dark' thrills that it's rare, and purifying, to encounter a movie with a true feel for the sinister.
pop painter n. a painter who specializes in pop art (pop art n.).
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > pop art > artist
pop artist1962
pop painter1962
popist1981
1962 Listener 30 Aug. 324/1 Certain of the ‘pop’ painters can apparently be paired off with artists on the other side of the Atlantic.
2000 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 108 768 Another successful pop painter of the 1960s, Roy Lichtenstein, did execute his paintings by hand, but in such a way that it would appear otherwise.
pop painting n. a work produced by a pop painter; pop art.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > pop art
pop art1956
pop1962
pop painting1962
agitpop1968
popism1980
1962 Listener 30 Aug. 324/2 The tendency of ‘pop’ paintings, Hockney's for instance, to resort to the use of words in order to help out the images is in itself significant.
1973 C. Jencks Mod. Movements in Archit. vii. 273 Its major tenet, expendability, is not only attacked by the traditional humanists but by the very ‘Daddy’ of Pop painting, Richard Hamilton.
2004 San Francisco (Calif.) Chron. (Nexis) 29 Feb. 16 He saw its continuity with the benday dots of gravure printing that he magnified in his signature Pop paintings.
pop-picker n. [popularized by the disc jockey Alan Freeman who presented the BBC radio programme Pick of the Pops between 1961 and 1972 (compare also quot. 1992)] colloquial (chiefly British) humorous a fan of pop music.
ΚΠ
1967 Radio Times 24 Aug. 17/3 Good news for pop pickers. Starting today, their own special programme gets a time bonus of an extra half-hour.
1985 Guardian (Nexis) 7 Nov. Yes, pop-pickers, the concept album has returned, courtesy of Kate Bush.
1992 Independent 30 Nov. 3/4 Veteran disc-jockey Alan ‘Fluff’ Freeman, 65, is retiring... ‘I'm going to miss saying “Greetings pop-pickers” every Sunday, it's become a ritual, but nothing lasts forever,’ he said.
2007 P. Murtagh Irish Times Bk. of Year 2007 81/1 He started listening to Radio Luxembourg in the early 1960s, when he would listen to the likes of Alan Freeman, the pop picker'spop picker.
pop wine n. [perhaps influenced by pop n.1 6] originally and chiefly U.S. a sweet or fruit-flavoured wine, low in alcohol content and often carbonated; (now also) an inexpensive wine intended to have a wide appeal.
ΚΠ
1970 Washington Post 29 Oct. d1/1 ‘Pop’—for ‘popular’ and ‘soda pop’—is what the wine industry calls its new product. One pop wine even has a cola taste.
1980 Times 27 Nov. 20/5 The emergence of truly ‘pop’ wines, of which Lancers is the great brand in the United States.
2000 N.Y. Times 16 July xiv. 18/1 This pop wine..is an agreeable sipper for lunchtime.
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popn.9

Brit. /pɒp/, U.S. /pɑp/
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: poppycock n.
Etymology: Shortened < poppycock n.
Now rare.
Nonsense, poppycock.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]
magged talea1387
moonshine1468
trumperyc1485
foolishness1531
trash1542
baggage1545
flim-flam1570
gear1570
rubbisha1576
fiddle-faddle1577
stuff1579
fible-fable1581
balductum1593
pill1608
nonsense1612
skimble-skamble1619
porridge1642
mataeology1656
fiddle-come-faddle1663
apple sauce1672
balderdash1674
flummery1749
slang1762
all my eye1763
diddle-daddle1778
(all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781
twaddle1782
blancmange1790
fudge1791
twiddle-twaddle1798
bothering1803
fee-faw-fum1811
slip-slop1811
nash-gab1816
flitter-tripe1822
effutiation1823
bladderdash1826
ráiméis1828
fiddlededee1843
pickles1846
rot1846
kelter1847
bosh1850
flummadiddle1850
poppycock1852
Barnum1856
fribble-frabble1859
kibosh1860
skittle1864
cod1866
Collyweston1867
punk1869
slush1869
stupidness1873
bilge-water1878
flapdoodle1878
tommyrot1880
ruck1882
piffle1884
flamdoodle1888
razzmatazz1888
balls1889
pop1890
narrischkeit1892
tosh1892
footle1894
tripe1895
crap1898
bunk1900
junk1906
quatsch1907
bilge1908
B.S.1912
bellywash1913
jazz1913
wash1913
bullshit?1915
kid-stakes1916
hokum1917
bollock1919
bullsh1919
bushwa1920
noise1920
bish-bosh1922
malarkey1923
posh1923
hooey1924
shit1924
heifer dust1927
madam1927
baloney1928
horse feathers1928
phonus-bolonus1929
rhubarb1929
spinach1929
toffeea1930
tomtit1930
hockey1931
phoney baloney1933
moody1934
cockalorum1936
cock1937
mess1937
waffle1937
berley1941
bull dust1943
crud1943
globaloney1943
hubba-hubba1944
pish1944
phooey1946
asswipe1947
chickenshit1947
slag1948
batshit1950
goop1950
slop1952
cack1954
doo-doo1954
cobbler1955
horse shit1955
nyamps1955
pony1956
horse manure1957
waffling1958
bird shit1959
codswallop1959
how's your father1959
dog shit1963
cods1965
shmegegge1968
pucky1970
taradiddle1970
mouthwash1971
wank1974
gobshite1977
mince1985
toss1990
arse1993
1890 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads (1892) 11 All we ever got from such as they Was pop to what the Fuzzy made us swaller.
1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey ii. iv. 151 Nobody pitied her; why, then, should she pity them? Besides, pity was ‘pop’, as Amabel would say.
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popn.10

Brit. /pɒp/, U.S. /pɑp/
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: popsicle n.
Etymology: Shortened < popsicle n.
U.S. colloquial.
= popsicle n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > ices > [noun] > water-ice > ice-lolly
popsicle1923
fudgsicle1938
ice block1948
iced lolly1949
ice lolly1949
pop1951
lollipop1953
paleta1957
1951 J. Kerouac On the Road: Orig. Scroll (2007) 315 The brother condescended to drive us around and even bought us ice cream pops.
1960 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (at cited word) Pop,..the common written and spoken abbr. for a popsicle, any ice or ice cream frozen on a stick and sold by street vendors or refreshment stands.
1974 H. L. Foster Ribbin', Jivin', & Playin' Dozens iv. 124 Usually the New York City folks call ice cream on a stick a pop while to the Buffalonians it is the soda that is called pop.
1983 N.Y. Times Mag. 28 Aug. 16/2 A sultry summer Sunday is a time for people to drive somewhere with the kids and when they arrive to buy them a pop. A what? You know, a pop—short for Popsicle—ice on a stick.
2004 Baby Talk (Nexis) Apr. 54 Yogurt smoothies made with low-fat yogurt, fresh fruit, and skim milk—or make frozen pops at home using an ice-pop mold for a sweet treat.
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popv.1

Brit. /pɒp/, U.S. /pɑp/
Forms: Middle English–1600s poppe, 1500s– pop, 1600s–1700s popp, 1800s pawp (Scottish).
Origin: An imitative or expressive formation.
Etymology: Imitative. Compare slightly later pop n.1 and also later pop adv.
1. transitive. colloquial. To strike, punch, knock; to deliver (a blow) to a person. Also: (British regional) †to strike lightly, tap (obsolete). Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)]
swingc725
slayc825
knockc1000
platOE
swengea1225
swipa1225
kill?c1225
girdc1275
hitc1275
befta1300
anhitc1300
frapa1330
lushc1330
reddec1330
takec1330
popc1390
swapa1400
jod?14..
quella1425
suffetc1440
smith1451
nolpc1540
bedunch1567
percuss1575
noba1586
affrap1590
cuff?1611
doda1661
buffa1796
pug1802
nob1811
scud1814
bunt1825
belt1838
duntle1850
punt1886
plunk1888
potch1892
to stick one on1910
clunk1943
zonk1950
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > strike with specific degree of force [verb (transitive)] > strike lightly
thackc897
tap?c1225
touchc1330
strike1488
tip1567
tit1589
tat1607
dib1609
bob1745
popc1817
percuss1827
rap1873
c1390 [implied in: G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale 3931 A ioly poppere [v.r. popper] baar he in his pouche. (at popper n. 1)].
1433 N. Phillip Serm. in A. G. Little Franciscan Papers, Lists, & Documents (1943) 253 K..denotat his knokyng; quando illi poppid hym and betten his chekis.
c1443 in N. H. Nicolas & E. Tyrrell Chron. London (1827) 130 Redy to a popped hym in the face with his dagger.
1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 286 (MED) To Poppe; vbi to stryke.
1629 J. Mabbe tr. C. de Fonseca Deuout Contempl. xxxii. 529 That thy flesh should commit so many treasons, and poppe thee in the mouth with so many lies, and yet thou shouldest still beleeue her.
1702 C. B. Gunn Linton Church (1912) 84 Mary Brown never saw anything betwixt them except his ‘popping her when she was lying on the lint rig’.
c1817 J. Hogg Tales & Sketches I. 336 She popped her master on the forehead.
1885 W. Scrope Salmon Fishing (1898) 209 I poppit the shouther o' the nowtherd callant.
1958 J. Barth End of Road iv. 56 I popped her one on the jaw. Laid her out cold.
1996 C. Bateman Of Wee Sweetie Mice & Men ii. 20 He switched to the right, had a clear shot at me, and popped me on the nose.
2.
a. transitive. To put or move (something) quickly, suddenly, or unexpectedly (usually with in, on, into, etc.). Also: to push or thrust up.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > promptly or suddenly
popa1500
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > surprise, astonish [verb (transitive)] > place surprisingly
popa1500
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > suddenness > come upon suddenly [verb (transitive)] > move or put suddenly
popa1500
a1500 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 122 (MED) I am gretly delyghtand In..þe bewte of women specyaly, With ther whyte pappys poppyd vp prately.
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vi. f. 73v Now diue they to the bottome downe, now vp their heades they pop.
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. S2v You..popt out your Booke against me.
1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) §82. 109 She..popt it into her mouth, and swallowed it all at once.
1750 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 355 Another fellow of Eton has popped out a sermon against the Doctor since his death.
1778 F. Burney Evelina II. ii. 33 He takes and pops me into the ditch!
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. ix. 130 Popping his head out of some window or door.
1891 B. Potter Let. in J. Mackenzie Victorian Courtship (1979) ix. 125 I popped on an old skirt and a mackintosh and trudged through the rain.
1977 K. O'Hara Ghost of Thomas Penry viii. 67 Sit you down and I'll pop the kettle on.
1994 M&S Mag. Winter 33/2 You can just pop the bath set in the washing machine, then gently tumble dry.
b. transitive. spec. (a) †To put out (a light) suddenly (obsolete); (b) †to put off (a person or thing) (obsolete); (c) to jot down (words).
ΚΠ
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iv. iii. sig. H2v Ile conquer Rome, Pop out the light of bright religion.
a1625 J. Fletcher Noble Gentleman i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Dd2v/1 And do you pop me off with this slight answer?
1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) III. 149 I would have you not to pop off the question.
1774 F. Burney Early Diary (1889) I. 304 Popping down my thoughts from time to time upon paper.
1822 E. A. Porden in A. G. L'Estrange Friendships M. R. Mitford (1882) I. v. 141 I..shall at once pop down what occurs to me.
1894 A. Dobson 18th Cent. Vignettes 2nd Ser. i. 3 He popped out the guttering candle.
1938 Times 4 Feb. 6/3 Ames was as a good a wicket-keeper as anyone could ask for; so his name was popped down.
2000 Gloucester Citizen (Nexis) 31 Jan. Why not pop them [sc. any good jokes] down on a piece of paper and send them in for the rest of us to enjoy.
c. transitive. To displace, dislodge, or injure (a part of the body); to dislocate. Also with out.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > affect with disorder of joints [verb (transitive)] > dislocate
unjointa1393
twist?1515
dislocate1608
dislock1609
luxate1623
to put out1640
lux1708
slip1728
to throw out1885
pop1914
1914 Atlanta Constit. 22 July 6/4 Will..leaned toward the spot where his favorite post had stood, only to fall across a case of pop bottles, popping two ribs.
1963 M. Duggan in C. K. Stead N.Z. Short Stories (1966) 2nd Ser. 3 Mum had hysterics and dad popped his gut.
1988 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 29 Feb. I've popped my shoulder three or four times before and they've fixed it on the field, but this time the first aid guys just couldn't put it in.
1999 M. Moffat Amer. Physical Therapy viii. 102 A severe twist or fall that pops the knee out of place.
3.
a. intransitive. To move or go somewhere quickly or unexpectedly, esp. for a short time. Usually with in, off, out, up, etc.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > happen or move unexpectedly [verb (intransitive)]
pop1530
break1711
pounce1836
the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > make dark [verb (transitive)] > quench (light)
aquenchc1000
quenchOE
to do outa1425
extinct1483
to put outa1500
out-quencha1522
dout1526
pop1530
extinguish1551
to put forth1598
snuff1688
douse1753
douse1780
smoor1808
to turn out1844
outen1877
to turn off1892
to black out1913
the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > promptly or suddenly
startc1275
pop1530
bob1836
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > evade [verb (transitive)] > put off
pop1530
to put off1569
to fode forth (also occasionally forward, off, on, out)1591
to shift offc1592
foist1598
to fob off1600
fub1600
to shuffle off1604
doffa1616
jig1633
to trump upa1640
whiffle1654
to fool off1664
sham1682
drill1752
to set off1768
to put by1779
jilt1782
palm1822
stall1829
job1872
to give (a person) the go-around1925
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)]
outgoeOE
to come outOE
forthcomeOE
to go outOE
to go outOE
ishc1330
to take forth one's way (also journey, road, etc.)a1375
proceedc1380
getc1390
exorta1400
issue?a1400
precedec1425
purgea1430
to come forthc1449
suea1450
ushc1475
to call one's way (also course)1488
to turn outa1500
void1558
redound1565
egress1578
outpacea1596
result1598
pursue1651
out1653
pop1770
to get out1835
progress1851
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come in [verb (intransitive)] > come in unexpectedly
to drop in1609
to look ina1616
to blow in1895
pop1977
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 662/1 He went so nere the banke that soudaynly he popped in to the water over heed and eares.
1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie sig. Bv The temperature of the wether will not permitte them to pop into the open ayre.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. ii. 66 He that hath..Pop't in betweene th' election and my hopes.
1660 T. Fuller Mixt Contempl. i. xxxiv. 56 Some..presently popped up into the Pulpit.
1710 Brit. Apollo 3 3/1 She might Pop in.
1770 G. Baretti Journey London to Genoa IV. App. 266 I expected..to see some beautiful damsel pop out suddenly.
1779 F. Burney Let. 6–9 Dec. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 453 In the Evening..I just popt down to play one Rubber with dear Mr. Thrale.
1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 421/2 Just pop home for a bundle of prospectuses.
1859 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing iv. 29 Many of the accidents which happen from feeble patients tumbling down stairs..happen..from the nurse popping out of a door.
1899 F. T. Bullen Log of Sea-waif 151 He requested me to ‘pop across the road’ and get him a drop of rum.
1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress xv. 186 ‘And now you get along,’ said the man. ‘You pop off.’
1977 B. Pym Quartet in Autumn vii. 63 ‘Goodbye, then,’ she said. ‘I'll pop in again some time.’
1995 Times Educ. Suppl. 10 Feb. (Extra Music & Arts Suppl.) p. ii/1 Dame Marie Rambert recalls how..Picasso would pop backstage after performances.
†b. intransitive. To come on or upon suddenly or unexpectedly; to happen upon. Obsolete (rare in later use).
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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (intransitive)] > come across or meet with
again-comea1382
counterc1475
occur1527
to fall on ——1533
recounter1583
greeta1627
encounter1632
rencounter1632
bemeet1656
pop1668
to fall in1808
the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > chance or risk [verb (transitive)] > come upon by chance
tumble1565
to fall with ——1646
pop1668
to luck upon1670
to run into ——1895
1668 T. St. Serfe Tarugo's Wiles Epilogue If happ'ly he shou'd pop upon a revery of Dactylus and Spondæus, there's none knows h[i]m wou'd believe it his.
1740 H. Walpole Corr. (1948) 4 Dec. XIII. 237 We have been trying to set out every day, and pop upon you.
1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. xiv. 78 I had the good fortune to pop upon the very thing I wanted.
1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman v. 215 We pop on the author, when we only expected to meet the—father.
1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 165 She pops, as perchance, upon kind Mistress Meeke.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 129 Popp'd upon, met with accidentally. Applied to both persons and things.
1857 Times 11 Nov. 12/3 In 1838..I first crossed the Atlantic, and popped upon a pecuniary crisis in New York.
1926 Fitchburg (Mass.) Sentinel 8 Sept. 10/7 Somebody popped upon him in a coffee-house in London.
c. intransitive. to pop up: (of an abstract or non-material thing) to appear or occur, esp. spontaneously or unexpectedly.With quot. 1748 cf. Phrases 1a.
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1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. xxiv. 142 Good motions pop up in my mind, I encouraged and collected every thing of this sort.., in order to bring the dear creature into good humour with me.
1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) VI. lxxiii. 312 Hankerings, that will, on every, but remotely-favourable incident..pop up.
1886 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 30 Nov. It is odd how persistently that word ‘labor’ keeps popping up so that there is no avoiding it.
1922 Lincoln (Nebraska) Star 1 Sept. 4/5 The unwritten law popped up today in Jersey's cinema slaying.
2003 Glamour Oct. 50 (heading) Think ‘heart disease’ and what image pops up?
d. intransitive. Cricket. Of the ball: to rise sharply off the pitch when bowled. Frequently with up.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > bowl [verb (intransitive)] > motion of ball
to make haste?a1475
twist?1801
cut1816
shoot1816
curl1833
hang1838
work1838
break1847
spin1851
turn1851
bump1856
bite1867
pop1871
swerve1894
to kick up1895
nip1899
swing1900
google1907
move1938
seam1960
to play (hit, etc.) across the line1961
1871 ‘Thomsonby’ Cricketers in Council 39 ‘Spin’ is not twist, it is that which gives the ball a tendency to twist, break back, shoot, pop up, or, in fact, do something eccentric.
1888 A. G. Steel in A. G. Steel & R. H. Lyttelton Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) iii. 153 The ball will twist a great deal on this class of wicket [hard and crumbled]... It is also inclined both to ‘pop’ and keep low.
1906 A. E. Knight Compl. Cricketer iii. 119 The ball, too, will rear up quickly, kick or ‘pop up’.
1959 Times 29 May 4/2 Nicholls skied a catch..aiming across the line at one that popped.
2003 UK Newsquest Regional Press (London) (Nexis) 23 July We lost four key batsmen because the ball popped up at length.
e. intransitive. To occur in a lively or exciting manner; to bustle with activity or agitation; to be filled or alive with.
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1900 Nebraska State Jrnl. 11 June 4/4 Things are popping down that way in a manner that ought to make the governor's whiskers part in the middle.
1903 Arizona Republican 20 Apr. 6/4 The town was popping pretty lively and the boys were yelling for me to come on.
1952 Los Angeles Times 10 Apr. c3/1 Yellowtail fishing really started popping Monday at San Diego with 125 taken.
1984 Life Jan. 158 After four bad years and slumping record sales, the charts were suddenly popping with mega-sellers.
1998 Independent 19 May i. 18/6 You only have to walk through Soho to feel that something is popping.
f. intransitive. U.S. slang. To pay (for).
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society > trade and finance > payment > pay money or things [verb (transitive)] > bear or defray the cost of
quitc1275
maintaina1425
pay1446
fray1450
abye1503
price?a1513
be1520
to stand to ——1540
disburse1548
defray1581
discharge1587
reimburse1591
discount1647
to be at the charge(s of1655
to pay off1711
stand1808
pop1947
1947 W. Motley Knock on Any Door 169 He might pop for the drinks.
1959 R. Bloch Big Kick in Blood runs Cold (1961) 218 He didn't pop... I said we were leaving..and all he did was smile.
1968 L. J. Braun Cat who turned on & Off (1969) xxi. 182 Hell. I didn't buy you anything, but I'll pop for lunch.
1991 J. Phillips You'll never eat Lunch in this Town Again (1992) 533 The deal goes down at Lorimar and we actually get them to pop for Anne Rice writing a ‘bible’ for a series of movies.
4.
a. transitive. To ask (a question) abruptly or unexpectedly; (with out) †to utter, give vent to (obsolete). Now only in to pop (†out) the question (colloquial): to propose marriage (occasionally intransitive).
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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > ask, enquire [verb (transitive)] > ask a question > forcefully
pop1573
snap1874
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > proposal of marriage > propose marriage [verb (intransitive)]
pop1573
offer1587
speaka1616
proposea1771
1573 G. Gascoigne Disc. Aduentures Master F. I. in Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 274 At the last Pergo popped this question vnto him.
1682 J. Fletcher Chances in Comedies & Trag. ii. ii. 8/2 What a block-head Would e're have popt out such a dry Apologie, For his deare Friend?
1722 New Eng. Courant 9 Apr. 1/2 I should be very glad to know your Sentiments whether it would be improper for the Lady to pop the Question first.
1725 J. Byrom Jrnl. 3 June in Private Jrnl. & Lit. Remains (1854) I. i. 148 Dear Governor and Governess, the boy here having given me leave to ask you how you do, I have made bold to pop the question to you.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. xx. 95 Afraid he would now, and now, and now, pop out the question; which he had not the courage to put.
1787 Daily Universal Reg. 15 Jan. 2/3 Women of fashion have been frequently heard to pop out oaths.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. iv. i. 11 You..pop the question without making any bones of it.
1843 Bentley's Misc. Apr. 417 If you like the girl, why don't you ‘pop’?
1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. vii. 58 ‘Is it settled?’ she asked..;—‘has he popped?’
1934 W. Lewis Men without Art i. iii. 65 The mere act of writing..has been undertaken with as much trepidation as the Victorian young man experienced in ‘popping the question’.
1960 M. Sharp Something Light vii. 64 I haven't actually..popped, yet.
1995 Daily Mail 2 Jan. 47/3 When he popped the question I said yes without a further thought.
b. intransitive. U.S. colloquial. to pop off: to speak hastily or angrily; to complain loudly; to lose one's temper. Cf. to go off pop at pop adv. 3.
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the mind > emotion > anger > manifestation of anger > show anger [verb (intransitive)] > speak angrily
spitc1386
ragea1400
blowc1475
blustera1494
storm?1553
pelt1594
tear1602
fare1603
to speak or look daggers1603
to blow hot coalsc1626
rant1647
scream1775
to pop off1914
to carry on1947
the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > speak loudly or angrily
thundera1340
raisec1384
to speak outc1515
jowlc1540
fulmine1623
to talk big1680
tang1686
to speak upa1723
to go ona1753
rip1828
whalea1852
yap1864
to rip and tear1884
megaphone1901
to pop off1914
foghorn1918
to sound off1918
loudmouth1931
woof1934
the mind > language > speech > request > protesting or remonstrance > protest or remonstrate [verb (intransitive)] > aggressively, loudly, or angrily
bark?c1225
crusade1732
to scream (also cry, yell, etc.) blue murder1828
to pop off1914
1914 Lincoln (Nebraska) Daily Star 23 Sept. 6/3 The British government never made any direct criticism of the president's actions, but one of their diplomatic officers popped off some.
1943 Sun (Baltimore) 20 Sept. 16/8 The dealer ‘popped off without knowing what he was talking about’.
1970 Daily Tel. 7 Feb. 16/2 Company chairmen have been popping-off about the iniquities of selective employment tax for four years.
1992 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) May 216/2 Sometimes, she pops off, not often, but stingingly.
5.
a. intransitive. To make a small quick explosive sound; to burst or explode with a pop.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > explosive sound > [verb (intransitive)] > pop
to make a pot at1532
pop1576
pap1791
plock1931
blip1946
1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions 124 b Popping or smacking with the mouthe.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes 353/1 Schioppare, to burst, to cracke, to snap, to pop of as doth a gun.
1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman (Dublin ed.) May xiii. 147 In a few Days time they'll [sc. caddis flies] crack or pop on squeezing.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. x. iii. 50 The report of musketry, popping so near the head-quarters of our repose.
1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen Garden 179 When you hear the first gun pop at the unhappy partridges.
1894 K. Grahame Pagan Papers 159 When the chestnuts popped in the ashes.
1922 V. Woolf Jacob's Room i. 12 She was covered with the seaweed which pops when it is pressed.
1993 Flyer July 61/2 If it shorts, the circuit breaker should pop and isolate that part of the system.
b. intransitive. Of the eyes: to protrude; to bulge (or appear to bulge) out, esp. with surprise, excitement, etc.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > feel wonder, be amazed [verb (intransitive)] > of eyes: protrude
pop1680
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [verb (intransitive)] > by size, shape, etc.
starta1393
sparkle1594
startle1600
settle1615
pop1680
fever1820
largen1844
bug1868
1680 J. Aubrey in J. Walker Lett. Eminent Persons (1813) III. 565 Full eie, popping out and working.
1831 C. B. Southey Cat's Tail 30 Mrs. Dapple was found in a very strange way Her eyes popping out like a lobster's.
1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xxii. 248 What are your eyes popping out of your head about?
1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet i. ii. 37 They looked exactly like two fellows that had done hung themselves.., with their heads snubbed up together and pointing straight up..and their eyes popping.
1979 G. Hammond Dead Game xi. 143 He sold the Dickson Round Action [gun] there for a price that made Molly's eyes pop.
1991 A. Carter Wise Children (1992) i. 42 Their eyes are popping out, they're drooling and slobbering.
c. intransitive. Of the ears: to make a small popping sound within the head as pressure is equalized between different parts of the auditory canal, esp. during a change of altitude.
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the world > life > the body > sense organ > hearing organ > [verb (intransitive)]
pop1934
1934 Nashua (Iowa) Reporter 1 Aug. 6/3 Ears popping? That's only altitude, my dear.
1962 Underwater Swimming (‘Know the Game’ Ser.) 15 It is often possible to assist ears that are difficult to clear by pinching the nose and blowing gently, when the ears will be felt to ‘pop’ as the pressures equalise.
1977 D. Bagley Enemy xxxvi. 300 My ears popped as the pressure changed.
1989 Chicago Tribune 30 Apr. (Sunday Mag.) 18/2 The ride takes 90 seconds, your eyes widen, your ears pop about four times.
d. intransitive. colloquial. To give birth. Also occasionally transitive: to give birth to. Sometimes used of both parents collectively.
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1939 New Masses 10 Jan. 19/3 She said to me very polite, I hope you have your kid here, I think we're gonna pop about the same time.
1972 G. Durrell Catch me Colobus viii. 156 Quick!.. Sheena's going to pop!
1985 N. Sahgal Rich like Us vi. 78 I've threatened my ayah with dismissal more than once if she produces another child but she goes on popping brats.
1996 M. Burgess Junk (1997) xxix. 258 She got bigger and bigger every time she came in and now she's about ready to pop.
2003 Independent 5 Mar. (Review section) 5/3 My friends were snapping up lifemates right and left, popping out heirs.
e. intransitive. Originally U.S. To be or become vivid or visually arresting. Also with out.
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1946 Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune 12 May 7/6 In a burst of dye freedom, cotton's colors pop out in Chinese red and blue, chartreuse, coffee cream..and gunmetal grey.
1971 Nevada State Jrnl. 12 Dec. 15/1 (advt.) Colors really pop. Gives you the sharpest color picture available.
1980 M. Crichton Congo 20 Technical details preoccupied her for an hour, until suddenly the image ‘popped’, coming up bright and clean.
2004 Jakarta Post (Electronic ed.) 15 Feb. 7 Men with darker complexions and hair look better in bright colors—crisp, clear, rich colors that pop out.
6.
a. transitive. To cause to make a small quick explosive sound; to burst with a pop; to fire, let off, as an explosive or gun. Also figurative.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > fire (a gun) [verb (transitive)]
loosec1400
fire1508
let1553
pop1595
report1605
unlade1611
to fire off1706
to let off1714
squib1811
to set off1881
to ease off1916
poop1917
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > explosive sound > [verb (transitive)] > pop
pop1595
1595 T. Maynard Francis Drake his Voy. (1849) 23 We popt away powder and shott to no purpose.
a1652 A. Wilson Inconstant Lady (1814) ii. i. 31 Haue a speech readie to popp of in triumph.
1697 T. D'Urfey Cinthia & Endimion iii. i. 16 Father Saturn..got the knack there of making Sky-Rockets, Squibbs, and such like, and now..he's always whizzing and popping 'em about.
1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. ix. 144 When a musquet's half-worn out, schoolboys buy it—pop it at sparrows.
1883 O. W. Holmes Seasons in Pages from Old Vol. 160 The ginger-beer carts rang their bells and popped their bottles.
1937 Life 26 July 23/2 Inside they were treated to the sight of fair-haired children riding ponies and popping air rifles.
1991 J. Cartwright To 36 While he's not looking, she blows it [sc. a crisp packet] up and pops it in his ear.
b. transitive. colloquial (chiefly North American). To open or release with a popping sound; spec. to open (a can of drink) with a pop by pulling the tab or ring pull; (also) to release the hood (bonnet) or trunk (boot) of a car by pulling a lever. Frequently with open.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > open [verb (transitive)] > open to use or a source > open a can
pop1976
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 10 Apr. 18/2 Settled now on a sofa in the youth center, popping cans of Busch Bavarian.
1976 T. O'Brien Northern Lights i. 76 He..popped open two cans of beer.
1985 E. Leonard Glitz xv. 134 Vincent popped the trunk lid and there it was.
1987 New Yorker 24 Aug. 26/2 Steve popped another beer.
1988 T. Harris Silence of Lambs (1989) xiii. 95 Stay in the car, Jeff, just pop the trunk.
1990 P. Auster Music of Chance vii. 156 The kid popped open another bottle of champagne.
2000 K. Reichs Deadly Décisions iii. 29 I spread my take-out sushi on the table, popped a Diet Coke, and hit the button.
2007 Torque Oct. 36/1 You will have to pop the bonnet to check the engine is there, because you certainly won't hear it.
7. slang.
a. transitive. To kill, destroy. Usually with off.
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the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (transitive)]
swevec725
quelmeOE
slayc893
quelleOE
of-falleOE
ofslayeOE
aquellc950
ayeteeOE
spillc950
beliveOE
to bring (also do) of (one's) life-dayOE
fordoa1000
forfarea1000
asweveOE
drepeOE
forleseOE
martyrOE
to do (also i-do, draw) of lifeOE
bringc1175
off-quellc1175
quenchc1175
forswelta1225
adeadc1225
to bring of daysc1225
to do to deathc1225
to draw (a person) to deathc1225
murder?c1225
aslayc1275
forferec1275
to lay to ground, to earth (Sc. at eird)c1275
martyrc1300
strangle1303
destroya1325
misdoa1325
killc1330
tailc1330
to take the life of (also fro)c1330
enda1340
to kill to (into, unto) death1362
brittena1375
deadc1374
to ding to deathc1380
mortifya1382
perisha1387
to dight to death1393
colea1400
fella1400
kill out (away, down, up)a1400
to slay up or downa1400
swelta1400
voida1400
deliverc1400
starvec1425
jugylc1440
morta1450
to bring to, on, or upon (one's) bierc1480
to put offc1485
to-slaya1500
to make away with1502
to put (a person or thing) to silencec1503
rida1513
to put downa1525
to hang out of the way1528
dispatch?1529
strikea1535
occidea1538
to firk to death, (out) of lifec1540
to fling to deathc1540
extinct1548
to make out of the way1551
to fet offa1556
to cut offc1565
to make away?1566
occise1575
spoil1578
senda1586
to put away1588
exanimate1593
unmortalize1593
speed1594
unlive1594
execute1597
dislive1598
extinguish1598
to lay along1599
to make hence1605
conclude1606
kill off1607
disanimate1609
feeze1609
to smite, stab in, under the fifth rib1611
to kill dead1615
transporta1616
spatch1616
to take off1619
mactate1623
to make meat of1632
to turn up1642
inanimate1647
pop1649
enecate1657
cadaverate1658
expedite1678
to make dog's meat of1679
to make mincemeat of1709
sluice1749
finisha1753
royna1770
still1778
do1780
deaden1807
deathifyc1810
to lay out1829
cool1833
to use up1833
puckeroo1840
to rub out1840
cadaverize1841
to put under the sod1847
suicide1852
outkill1860
to fix1875
to put under1879
corpse1884
stiffen1888
tip1891
to do away with1899
to take out1900
stretch1902
red-light1906
huff1919
to knock rotten1919
skittle1919
liquidate1924
clip1927
to set over1931
creasea1935
ice1941
lose1942
to put to sleep1942
zap1942
hit1955
to take down1967
wax1968
trash1973
ace1975
1649 Mercurius Aulicus 21–28 Aug. 14 If they should transcend the bounds of their Commissions, and preach true doctrine for Heresie, they may chance to be popp'd off, or swing for't.
1824 J. Hogg Private Mem. Justified Sinner 253 Might we not..pop him off in private and quietness?
1888 Freeborn County Standard (Albert Lea, Minnesota) 19 Dec. 2/3 The blessed chance of being popped off by one of Mosby's men at any moment.
1922 E. Wallace Flying Fifty-five x. 58 You might have been ‘popped off’ yourself if you'd only got within range of a bullet.
1977 Navy News Sept. 21/5 It is possible for a Seacat or Seaslug missile to get close enough to topple the target off course and ‘pop’ the parachute recovery system.
1994 Harper's May 54/1 If criminals start seeing people getting popped off after six months, I'm sorry, but that's going to change some minds.
b. intransitive to pop (off): to die. Also to pop off the hooks.
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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]
forsweltc888
sweltc888
adeadeOE
deadc950
wendeOE
i-wite971
starveOE
witea1000
forfereOE
forthfareOE
forworthc1000
to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE
queleOE
fallOE
to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE
to shed (one's own) blood?a1100
diec1135
endc1175
farec1175
to give up the ghostc1175
letc1200
aswelta1250
leavea1250
to-sweltc1275
to-worthc1275
to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290
finea1300
spilla1300
part?1316
to leese one's life-daysa1325
to nim the way of deathc1325
to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330
flit1340
trance1340
determinec1374
disperisha1382
to go the way of all the eartha1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
miscarryc1387
shut1390
goa1393
to die upa1400
expirea1400
fleea1400
to pass awaya1400
to seek out of lifea1400–50
to sye hethena1400
tinea1400
trespass14..
espirec1430
to end one's days?a1439
decease1439
to go away?a1450
ungoc1450
unlivec1450
to change one's lifea1470
vade1495
depart1501
to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513
to decease this world1515
to go over?1520
jet1530
vade1530
to go westa1532
to pick over the perch1532
galpa1535
to die the death1535
to depart to God1548
to go home1561
mort1568
inlaikc1575
shuffle1576
finish1578
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
relent1587
unbreathe1589
transpass1592
to lose one's breath1596
to make a die (of it)1611
to go offa1616
fail1623
to go out1635
to peak over the percha1641
exita1652
drop1654
to knock offa1657
to kick upa1658
to pay nature her due1657
ghost1666
to march off1693
to die off1697
pike1697
to drop off1699
tip (over) the perch1699
to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703
sink1718
vent1718
to launch into eternity1719
to join the majority1721
demise1727
to pack off1735
to slip one's cable1751
turf1763
to move off1764
to pop off the hooks1764
to hop off1797
to pass on1805
to go to glory1814
sough1816
to hand in one's accounts1817
to slip one's breatha1819
croak1819
to slip one's wind1819
stiffen1820
weed1824
buy1825
to drop short1826
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839
to get one's (also the) call1839
to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840
to unreeve one's lifeline1840
to step out1844
to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845
to hand in one's checks1845
to go off the handle1848
to go under1848
succumb1849
to turn one's toes up1851
to peg out1852
walk1858
snuff1864
to go or be up the flume1865
to pass outc1867
to cash in one's chips1870
to go (also pass over) to the majority1883
to cash in1884
to cop it1884
snuff1885
to belly up1886
perch1886
to kick the bucket1889
off1890
to knock over1892
to pass over1897
to stop one1901
to pass in1904
to hand in one's marble1911
the silver cord is loosed1911
pip1913
to cross over1915
conk1917
to check out1921
to kick off1921
to pack up1925
to step off1926
to take the ferry1928
peg1931
to meet one's Maker1933
to kiss off1935
to crease it1959
zonk1968
cark1977
to cark it1979
to take a dirt nap1981
1764 S. Foote Patron i. 11 If lady Pepperpot should happen to pop off.
1778 F. Burney Let. 5 July in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 36 I often think..what a pity it would have been had I popt off in my last Illness.
c1820 J. Keats Let. to Haydon in Poet. Wks. (1886) 24 I am afraid I shall pop off just when my mind is able to run alone.
1887 G. R. Sims Mary Jane's Mem. 112 He'd said his mother would soon pop off the hooks, and he'd have all her money.
1922 E. Wallace Flying Fifty-five x. 58 If he'd only popped off in the war, Jacques.
1952 W. R. Burnett Vanity Row (1953) v. 45 She'd be worrying how to knock me off. Or trying to get me het up..so's I'd pop.
1975 New Yorker 26 May 32/2 I agreed not to say ‘death’, ‘dying’,..‘go home feet first’, ‘pop off the hooks’.
1995 Maxim July 40/1 Your parents are older than you are... Unless you throw yourself under a bus, they will undoubtedly pop off before you do.
8.
a. intransitive. colloquial. To fire a gun; to shoot at.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > discharge firearms [verb (intransitive)]
to let fly1611
gun1622
fire1635
pop1650
pluff1826
squib1831
crack1835
poop1915
loose1928
to turn on (or give) the heat1928
1650 Severall Proc. Parl. No. 45. 662 The Mickle hill on this side Edenburgh, where some of their Muskettiers lay popping at us.
1669 T. Allin Jrnl. 30 Sept. (1940) (modernized text) II. 119 They took a Portuguese slave off the shore in spite of his guards, who lay popping behind a tuft or hillock.
1725 New Canting Dict. To pop, to fire a Pistol.
1776 Earl Percy Lett. (1902) 74 They sent down..a number of their rangers to pop at our advanced posts and sentries.
a1845 T. Ingoldsby Ld. of Thoulouse in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 188 Popping at pheasants.
1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile xix. 563 We heard our sportsman popping away..in the barley.
1978 I. S. Black Caribbean Strip x. 148 He pushed a gun into David's hand, and fired himself... ‘Pop off at them.’.. ‘Never know your luck.’
2003 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 12 Oct. a1 Recruits could be seen..popping away with pistols at a firing range.
b. transitive. To pick off with a shot; †to shoot down (obsolete).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > wound with missile
shootc893
shoot1297
feather1415
to shoot (a person, thing) through1535
daga1572
pistol1598
lace1622
to shoot‥through and througha1648
pink1661
pop1762
plump1785
wing1802
drill1808
rifle1821
leg1829
hole1847
shot1855
blunderbuss1870
riddle1874
pip1900
slot1987
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > fire (a gun) [verb (transitive)] > shoot (a person or thing)
shoot1617
to bird off1688
to knock downa1744
to pick off1745
pop1762
drill1808
plug1833
perforate1838
slap1842
stop1845
pot1860
spot1882
plunk1888
pip1900
souvenir1915
poop1917
spray1922
smoke1926
zap1942
crack1943
pot-shoot1969
1762 Pennsylvania Arch. (1853) IV. 84 They knew the woods well, and would pop them down 3 for 1.
1813 G. Jackson Let. 23 Sept. in Lady Jackson Bath Archives (1873) II. 280 Many unwary stragglers have been popped off in this way.
1861 P. B. Du Chaillu Explor. Equatorial Afr. ix. 106 Keeping our guns in readiness to pop down anything which should come in our way.
1958 R. K. Narayan Guide v. 57 I arranged for the lamb to bait the tiger, and had high platforms built so that the brave hunters might pop off the poor beast when it came to eat the lamb.
1992 Guns Illustr. (ed. 24) 5 When I was a young lad popping off woodchucks in upper New York state some 35 years ago, I used an old Winchester Model 67A rifle.
9. transitive. British slang. To pawn.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > borrow money [verb (transitive)] > pawn
to give (also have, lay, put, take) to pledgec1384
to set, put, lay to or in wedc1384
engage1525
pawn1570
to lay (up) in lavender1584
impawn1598
oppignorate1622
pignorate1623
dip1640
to put to lumber1671
vamp1699
pop1731
sweatc1800
spout1811
lumber1819
up the spout1819
hock1878
soak1882
to put away1887
1731 H. Fielding Letter-writers ii. ii. 22 Ay,..he'll make us pop our Unders for the Reckoning: We'll not go with him.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 474/1 [She] took one to pop..for an old 'oman what was on the spree.
1902 J. M. Barrie Little White Bird vi It was plain for what she had popped her watch.
1954 P. G. Wodehouse Jeeves & Feudal Spirit xii. 108 ‘Pawned it?’ I said... ‘Hocked it, you mean? Popped it?’
1985 A. Guinness Blessings in Disguise i. 4 I had to pop the silver, dear; you know what I mean.
10. Baseball.
a. transitive. To hit (a ball) in a short, high arc, providing an easy catch. Usually with up.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > play baseball [verb (transitive)] > actions of batter
pop1867
foul1870
poke1880
pole1882
bunch1883
line1887
to foul off1888
rip1896
sacrifice1905
pickle1906
to wait out1909
pull1912
single1916
pinch-hit1929
nub1948
tag1961
tomahawk1978
1867 Ball Players' Chron. 6 June 2/3 On Hunniwell popping one up which fell into Sumner's hands, Smith had to retire, a double play putting both out.
1886 Outing July 477/2 The man who..‘fans out’ or ‘pops one up’.
1912 C. Mathewson Pitching in Pinch 204 Then Doyle popped up a weak foul behind the catcher.
1956 Lincoln (Nebraska) Star 10 Oct. 21/6 He threw me practically the same pitch in the eighth but I popped it up.
2003 N.Y. Times (Electronic ed.) 14 May d1 My first at-bat I was a little anxious. I got out in front and popped the ball up.
b. intransitive. To be caught out after hitting a high ball. Also with out or up.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > play baseball [verb (intransitive)] > be put out
to strike out1853
pop1885
peg1939
1885 N.Y. Times 10 Oct. 3/1 Smith and Terry had both popped out, when Oldfield made a base hit.
1931 N.Y. Times 17 Apr. 28/1 Bennett was called out on strikes, Howson got a walk and Moles popped out to Fisher.
1948 Chicago Tribune 7 Mar. ii. 1/4 Lupien popped to Johnson.
1995 Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) 22 Oct. v. 1/4 Maddux ended the game by getting the dangerous Carlos Baerga to pop to third baseman Chipper Jones.
c. transitive. To hit or throw hard; to hit (a home run).
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1923 Chicago Tribune 5 July 19/5 He popped a homer into the left field bleachers.
1947 Dothan (Alabama) Eagle 4 June 5/5 Gilbert popped a homer out of the park.
1973 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Jrnl. 12 May 13/4 He was really popping the ball. Boy, I really like the way he's throwing now.
2000 N.Y. Times (Electronic ed.) 16 June d5 Tom Filer, the Norwich pitching coach, said, ‘And when he wants to, he can reach back and pop the ball’.
11. transitive and intransitive. slang. To take (a drug or pill); spec. to swallow or inject (a narcotic drug); to inject (a vein) with a drug.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > take drugs [verb (transitive)] > inject (with) drugs
shoot1914
jab1938
mainline1938
main1952
pop1952
skin1953
fix1969
1952 H. Ellson Golden Spike 113 I'd snort and pop and main till I dropped.
1956 R. Thorp Viper vi. 92 Nearly everyone there seemed to be popping. There were so many needles working you might have thought it was a tailors shop.
1959 W. S. Burroughs Naked Lunch 29 Ever pop coke in the mainline?
1968 M. Woodhouse Rock Baby ii. 109 For him the day..started when he swallowed the first pill or popped the first vein.
1976 R. Rosenblum Sweetheart Deal iv. 46 The half-million ghetto kids who'll start popping junk this year.
1996 Independent 17 July i. 15/4 They pop painkillers like Smarties to keep going, despite stress fractures.
12. slang.
a. intransitive. U.S. To ejaculate; to have an orgasm. Also with off.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > ejaculate
untap1622
spend1662
discharge1683
shoot1879
to get one's nuts offc1932
to get one's rocks off1948
pop1958
spaff1999
1958 L. F. Cooley Run for Home (1959) xxviii. 314 Nothin' much happened 'cause he never stayed with one of them long enough to pop!
1963 T. I. Rubin Sweet Daddy 99 She popped. You know—came.
1983 Opus Pistorum ii. 61 When..he's ready to pop off he stops and rests.
2003 T-Joy Julie, Chapter One in alt.sex.stories (Usenet newsgroup) 30 July He knew nothing of foreplay. He popped off—in me—about ten strokes into it.
b. transitive originally U.S. Of a man: to have sexual intercourse with.In quot. 1976: to penetrate during sexual intercourse.
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1959 E. de Roo Young Wolves 135 Cliff popped me... When a guy starts you, you go soft when he comes around beggin'.
1976 in D. Wepman et al. Life 110 Towel-Slinging Kelly, whose ass looked like jelly From being popped so much in the past.
1989 D. Leavitt Equal Affections 31 Trying to convince the judge that I'd been adulterous when he was popping every little coed who went by his office.
1997 F. Baldwin Balling the Jack (1998) xiii. 147 In that strange room, set to pop a girl I hardly knew, it all came back to me.
13. transitive. North American. To arrest, catch in a criminal act. Frequently in to get popped.
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)]
at-holda1230
attacha1325
resta1325
takec1330
arrest1393
restay?a1400
tachec1400
seisinc1425
to take upa1438
stowc1450
seize1471
to lay (also set, clap, etc.) (a person) by the heels?1515
deprehend1532
apprehend1548
nipa1566
upsnatcha1566
finger1572
to make stay of1572
embarge1585
cap1590
reprehend1598
prehenda1605
embar1647
nap1665
nab1686
bone1699
roast1699
do1784
touch1785
pinch1789
to pull up1799
grab1800
nick1806
pull1811
hobble1819
nail1823
nipper1823
bag1824
lag1847
tap1859
snaffle1860
to put the collar on1865
copper1872
to take in1878
lumber1882
to pick up1887
to pull in1893
lift1923
drag1924
to knock off1926
to put the sleeve on1930
bust1940
pop1960
vamp1970
1960 R. G. Reisner Jazz Titans 163 Popped, caught (with drugs in one's possession). Example: I got popped.
1971 Lima (Ohio) News 23 May b15/3 The guy who used to supply me meth to sell got busted... It seemed everybody was getting popped.
1992 Details Oct. 174/3 These two cops who had a hard-on for me..used to pop me here all the time.
2002 Vibe July 98/2 His sole conviction came in 1996, when the 22-year-old got popped for using phony plastic at a Costco store.
14. transitive. Computing. To retrieve (a piece of data, etc.) from the top of a stack; to remove the top element of (a stack); = to pull down 6 at pull v. Phrasal verbs. Also intransitive with up.
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society > computing and information technology > data > database > use data [verb (transitive)] > prepare a stack > retrieve from a stack
pop1962
pull1985
society > computing and information technology > data > database > use data [verb (transitive)] > prepare a stack > remove from a stack
pop1962
1962 R. S. Ledley Programming & Utilizing Digital Computers v. 178 When an element is removed from the list, it is always taken off the top by removing it from this same memory location and the remaining elements are then made to ‘pop up’.
1976 M. M. Mano Computer Syst. Archit. vii. 267 A return to the running program is effected by first popping the contents of registers out of the stack and then popping the return address and placing it into PC.
1985 Austral. Personal Computer Oct. 181/3 In Forth, we use the operator . (dot) to pop the stack.
2002 Game Developer (Nexis) 1 Dec. 18 When entering, the zone is pushed onto a stack; when leaving, it's popped.
15. transitive. To execute (a manoeuvre) by lifting or tipping a motorcycle, bicycle, skateboard, etc. Esp. in to pop a wheelie.
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1970 Daily Tribune (Wisconsin Rapids) 28 July 4/3 A full color photograph of a child caught defacing the earth by popping wheelies.
1992 J. Stern & M. Stern Encycl. Pop Culture 456/1 Popping an ollie railslide into a bench at the K-mart parking lot simply doesn't have the cosmic punch of conquering the storm waves at Waikiki.
1993 Super Bike Jan. 50/2 I did a single lap on the RC on open roads and popped this enormous wheelie at Kate's on the run down to the Creg.
2001 Carve Sept. 76/2 You'll go careering off the back, or maybe pop an air that you weren't expecting.
16. transitive. Figure-skating. To fail to perform all the rotations of (a multiple-rotation jump); to transform (a multiple-rotation jump) into a jump with fewer rotations.
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1985 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 9 Feb. s2/4 During the performance, she turned the triple into a single lutz. ‘I popped the first jump and it took me a few seconds to get over it.’
1988 B. Orser Orser: Skater's Life iii. 117 Scott popped a few jumps and didn't skate well (later we read that he had an ear infection).
2002 Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 26 Oct. d11 His only problem came when he popped a triple lutz into a double.

Phrases

P1.
a. to pop into a person's mind (also head): (of a thought, idea, etc.) to come to a person, to suggest itself.
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a1763 J. Byrom Remarks Horace iv. x, in Poems (1894) I. ii. 520 I'll ask anon, from what has now been said, If Emendation pops into your Head.
1847 J. W. Buhoup Narr. Central Div. 37 I had almost given up trying, when a thought popped into my mind that I would let on to be a deserter.
1892 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 5 455 I have tried to think of the name of a person..and [then]..have had it come to me without any connecting ideas at all, but it just seemed to ‘pop’ into my mind.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 84/4 A use for it immediately popped into my mind.
1996 Amer. Scientist July 331/2 It's the first thing that pops into my head.
b. to pop in and out: to come and go frequently or casually; to visit for a short time, esp. without prior arrangement.
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society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > visit [verb (intransitive)] > visit informally
to call in1573
to drop in1609
to look ina1616
to come round1620
to go round1636
to put in1668
to go around1742
to happen in1749
to run in and out1779
to come around1822
to pop in and out1846
to happen in with1883
to stop in1904
stop1905
1846 Times 19 Sept. 4/2 He could have profited very little by his series of flying visits to all the sections which he kept popping in and out of.
1858 E. C. Gaskell Let. 19 Oct. (1966) 517 We have more people popping in & out than we expected.
1861 Appleton (Wisconsin) Crescent 9 Feb. 1/7 He..placed himself under one of the seats in a train which he had singled out of the many which are constantly popping in and out.
1926 P. G. Wodehouse Heart of Goof iv. 126 He drew a picture of their little home, with Crispin for ever popping in and out.
1974 ‘S. Woods’ Done to Death 14 He can't keep popping in and out... But if she had a companion—.
1995 Minnesota Monthly Jan. 130/2 An informal arrangement opens the grandparents to conflicts with their own children, who can pop in and out of their lives.
c. Australian colloquial (now rare) how are you popping (up)?: how are you getting on?
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous formulae [phrase] > terms of greeting
God give you good dayc1275
hail be thou (also ye)c1275
pax vobisc1275
how do ye?1570
(good, fair) time of day (to you)1597
how goes it?1598
I salute youa1616
savea1616
how do you find yourself?a1646
how-do-you-do1697
how do?1886
how are you popping (up)?1894
how's (less frequently how are) tricks?1915
how's (or how are) things (or, originally Australia and New Zealand, tricks?)1926
how's life?1931
1894 H. Lawson Short Stories in Prose & Verse 89 ‘How are yer?’ ‘Oh! I'm alright!’ he says. ‘How are ye poppin' up!’
1907 N. Spielvogel Cocky Farmer 16 Whatto, Joe. How are you popping up?
1933 N. Lindsay Saturdee 10 What-oh, Stinker, how you poppin' up?
1942 ‘S. Campion’ Bonanza 207 Howya poppin', cobber?
P2. to pop corn: to heat dried kernels of maize or Indian corn until they swell up and burst open with a pop; to make popcorn in this way. Cf. popcorn n.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook [verb (transitive)] > cook specific food > grain
cree1620
to pop corn1842
1842 H. D. Thoreau Jrnl. 3 Jan. (1981) I. 357 I have been popping corn tonight—which is only a more rapid blossoming of the seed under a greater than July heat.
1853 Harper's Mag. May 853/1 A little boy sat by the kitchen-fire, A-popping corn in the ashes.
1873 ‘S. Coolidge’ What Katy Did x. 201 ‘I popped the corn!’ cried Philly.
1907 St. Nicholas May 614/1 Grandma lives on a farm and we used to have great fun popping corn whenever we went to see her.
1979 Sunset Apr. 129/2 (advt.) The Popaire hot air popper pops 4 quarts of light, fluffy pop~corn in 5 minutes!
2005 San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News (Nexis) 23 Feb. 1 Microwaving has become the most popular way of popping corn.
P3. transitive (originally and chiefly North American) to pop the clutch: to release a vehicle's clutch suddenly and violently, so that the vehicle springs into gear.
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1954 Amer. Speech 29 103 Stripe out, to ‘rev up’ the motor, ‘pop the clutch’, and ‘lay rubber’ with the rear wheels.
1986 Omnibus Nov. 32/2 Go light on the gas pedal, and for god's sake don't pop the clutch.
2001 J. Grisham Painted House (2002) iv. 43 Pappy popped the clutch, and the tractor and trailer lurched forward.
P4. transitive. colloquial (chiefly British). [Perhaps after sense 9, although compare also sense 7b.] to pop one's clogs: to die; (of a thing) to cease to exist.
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1970 Pick of Punch 186 He was forced to retire in 1933 after a disastrous Catholic/Protestant punch-up among the bugs. He's just popped his clogs.
1976 Times 14 Dec. 10/4 When she pops her slender clogs in next week's concluding part, who knows but that I may not shed a tear myself?
1983 G. MacDonald Fraser Pyrates vi. 108 It's either join us or pop your clogs.
1993 T. Barnes Taped (BNC) 127 ‘So is the company going bust?’ ‘Oh no, nothing like that. TVL's got problems, but no one says it's going to pop its clogs.’
2003 Independent on Sunday 19 Oct. (Life Etc. section) 2/4 There's been precious little monumental waywardness in literary circles since Hemingway popped his clogs.
P5. transitive. to pop a person's cherry and variants: to take a person's virginity; spec. to break the hymen during sexual intercourse. Also to pop one's cherry: to lose one's virginity. Also figurative. Cf. cherry n. 5c.
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1976 F. A. Hoffmann in V. Randolph Pissing in Snow iii. 9 (note) There are still men who expect to encounter and break a physical obstacle (‘pop the cherry’) in intercourse with a virgin.
1989 T. Kidder Among Schoolchildren iv. i. 127 He told her..that she needed someone to ‘pop her cherry’.
1997 Melody Maker 8 Nov. 48/3 It's the first ever Black Star Liner song I've heard, so I guess I'm popping my cherry.
2002 Times (Nexis) 31 Aug. 12 He didn't pop his cherry until his twenties.
2004 Daily Star (Nexis) 8 Aug. 6 Big Brother winner Nadia Almada is desperate to lose her virginity—and wants Jason to pop her cherry.
P6. to pop up: Surfing to jump to one's feet from a prone position on a surfboard, at the moment of catching a wave.
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1996 D. Werner Longboarder's Start-up iii. 40 Look at the surfers. See them stand up. See them pop-up!
2009 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 23 Aug. 18 ‘Let's try the spring or pop up,’ said Sam who, in a blur of movement, was on her toes, her finger tips and then standing up. Unsurprisingly, I failed to pop up.
2014 I. Streeter in Sight Lines (Univ. of Technol., Sydney) 173 Then he popped up, knees bent, weight forward, feeling the tail of the board lift and the rush forward along the line.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

† popv.2

Forms: Middle English papphe (transmission error), Middle English pop, Middle English poppe.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a borrowing from French. Etymon: French popiner.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps shortened < Middle French popiner, poupiner (of a woman) to adorn (oneself), to make (oneself) up (although this is first attested later: 1568) < popin pretty (a1506) or its etymon poupine doll (see poppin n.). Perhaps compare pop n.2
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To apply cosmetics to (the face). Also reflexive.
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c1400 Life St. Anne (Minn.) (1928) 2039 Þat bouste with þat swete so gude..Þat a gentyll woman boght To pop hyr with for scho thoght To mak hyr face swet & clere.
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) i. 6563 To farce and poppe ther visage.
?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 68 Whi popithe they and paintithe and pluckithe her uisage?
1493 Festivall (1515) (de Worde) f. a v b Ne haue not your vysage poppyd, ne your here pullyd or crowlyd [1532 pomped].
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popadv.

Brit. /pɒp/, U.S. /pɑp/
Origin: An imitative or expressive formation.
Etymology: Imitative. Compare earlier pop n.1, pop v.1The phrase pop goes the weasel at sense 2 has frequently been explained as referring to the pawning (compare pop v.1 9, pop n.1 7) of an unidentified item called the ‘weasel’, but this appears to be a later rationalization. The name of the dance apparently predates the song to this tune which is exemplified in quot. 1898 at sense 2.
1. With (the action or sound of) a pop; instantaneously, abruptly; unexpectedly. Also figurative.
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the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [adverb] > instantaneously or with a short space of time
swiftlya1400
at one fling1556
at one (a) chop1581
per saltum1602
at one (fell, etc.) swoop1612
popa1625
instantaneously1644
in the catching up of a garter1697
in the drawing of a trigger1706
in a handclap1744
at a slap1753
momentaneously1753
in a whiff1800
in a brace or couple of shakes1816
bolt1839
at a single jeta1856
overnight1912
jiffy-quick1927
in two ups1934
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > explosive sound > [interjection] > pop
popa1625
a1625 J. Fletcher Pilgrim iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ggggg4/2 Into that bush Pop goes his pate, and all his face is comb'd over.
1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal i. 4 As soon as any one speaks, pop I slap it down, and make that, too, my own.
1772 T. Bridges Burlesque Transl. Homer (rev. ed.) i. 3 Pop went his head, and up his breech, And thus began a curious speech.
1802 G. Colman Poor Gentleman (new ed.) i. ii. 15 It fell out unexpected—pop, on a sudden; like the going off of a field-piece.
1893 Scribner's Mag. Dec. 669/2 Pop went the cork of the Perrier Jouet.
1959 A. Wesker Chicken Soup with Barley I. i, in New Eng. Dramatists I. 236 My thoughts keep going pop, like bubbles.
1992 Economist 8 Feb. 16/2 If the world does not soon agree..the hope of foreign-policy unity among the democracies will go pop.
2. pop goes the weasel: a country dance popular in the mid 19th cent.; the tune or song of the same name to which this dance is performed.Pop goes the weasel is now regarded chiefly as a children's song or nursery rhyme.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > country-dance or dancing > [noun] > specific country-dances
haya1529
trenchmore1552
hay-de-guy1579
country bumpkin1649
sedany1651
Sir Roger de Coverley1685
Frenchmore1696
mermaid1701
Moll Peatley1711
hemp-dressers1756
cottager's dance1851
pop goes the weasel1853
tempête1873
barn dance1892
line dance1961
1853 Times 15 Mar. 11/2 La Napolienne, Pop goes the Weasel, and La Tempête..the original music of the above three celebrated dances.
1855 in Notes & Queries 10th Ser. 4 211/1 This dance is very popular, it is without deception, ‘Pop goes the weasel’ has been to Court, and met a good reception.
1898 A. B. Gomme Trad. Games II. 63 Half a pound of tup'ny rice, Half a pound of treacle; Mix it up and make it nice, Pop goes the weasel.
1940 D. Hall Record Bk. vii. 643 By all means go out of the way to acquire Lucien Cailliet's tremendously amusing set of variations on Pop Goes the Weasel.
1989 P. van der Merwe Origins Pop. Style x. 97 In ‘Pop goes the Weasel’..the note A in the second-last bar implies the subdominant chord.
3. colloquial (originally and chiefly Australian and New Zealand). to go off pop: to lose one's temper suddenly, launch into an angry tirade.
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the mind > emotion > anger > manifestation of anger > show anger [verb (intransitive)] > speak angrily > break into angry speech
to fling out1886
to go off pop1904
1904 Shearer (Sydney) 17 Sept. 4/5 McManus is having a hot time at sheds in the Cobar district; and how he does go off, pop! when the boys corner him.
1933 ‘P. Cadey’ Broken Pattern xii. 126 There's no need to go off pop like that.
1979 Listener 12 Sept. 335/2 Too much religion makes me go off pop.
1997 Guardian (Nexis) 20 Jan. ttt9 We all love the radio. But that is no reason to go off pop at the slightest suggestion that a single voice on it should be changed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

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POP
POP n. (also PoP) Telecommunications and Computing point of presence.
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1983 Data Communications (Nexis) Mar. 58 A POP could be a building, a floor of a building, or an unmanned facility.
1996 Pulse 20 Apr. 60/1 Is there a POP in your local phone area?
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POP
POP n. Post Office Preferred.
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1968 Which? 11 Jan. 2/2 The Post Office have told us that they are introducing a new system of envelope sizing, called Post Office Preferred (POP). Packets which are not the size the Post Office prefers will not qualify for the cheapest postal rates.
2002 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 30 Dec. Anything that is not POP size (Post Office Preferred) causes problems and has to be sorted by hand.
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P.O.P.
P.O.P. n. printing-out paper.
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > other types of paper
writing paper1610
gilt paper1645
chancery-double1712
stamp paper1765
satin paper1776
cardstock1840
tablet paper1876
quadrille1884
P.O.P.1895
copy-paper1902
Silurian1942
sticky note1978
1895 W. K. Burton Man. Photogr. viii. 126 Paper for the [gelatino-chloride] process..is sold under various names... Examples are ‘Solio-artistotype’, ‘Artisto-platino’ and ‘P.O.P.’
1925 P. R. Salmon All about Photogr. xx. 94 There is practically no difference between the cost of a finished print on P.O.P. and one on self-toning paper.
1989 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 4 Aug. 62 The Chicago Albumen Works printing-out paper is self-masking and available in the traditional P.O.P. single grade, weight and glossy surface.
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POP
POP n. Pharmacology progesterone-only pill, progestogen-only pill.
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1980 J. Guillebaud Pill viii. 162 Because the word ‘mini-pill’ causes so much confusion , I shall just label them progestogen-only pills or POPs for short.
1998 Idaho Falls Post Reg. (Nexis) 2 Apr. c6 This POP has been around for some time, but it is rarely used in the United States, whereas 10 to 15 percent of women in Great Britain and Sweden are on the POP.
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