POP

1. Persistent organic pollutant
2. Point of Presence, a point of access to the Internet
3. Post Office Preferred (of sizes of envelopes, packets, etc)

pop¹ /pop/

1. A mild explosive sound, like that of drawing a cork
2. A shot
3. An attempt (informal)
4. A pistol (slang)
5. Ginger beer, champagne or other effervescing drink (informal)
6. Pawn, or an act of pawning (informal)

1. To make a pop
2. To shoot
3. To burst with a pop
4. (of eyes) to protrude
5. To come, go, slip, or pass suddenly, unexpectedly or unobtrusively
6. To pitch or alight
7. To propose marriage (slang)

1. To cause to make a pop or to burst with a pop
2. To shoot
3. To thrust or put suddenly or quickly
4. To pawn (informal)
5. To swallow in pill form or inject (a drug) (drug sl)
6. To open (eg a lock or secure container) by force (informal)

1. With a pop
2. Suddenly

poppˈer noun

1. Someone who pops
2. Anything that makes a pop
3. A press-stud
4. A utensil for popping corn
5. (in pl) amyl nitrate or butyl nitrate inhaled from a crushed capsule (drug sl)

poppˈit or poppˈet noun

One of usu a number of beads each having a small protrusion on one side and a hole on the other, by means of which they can be linked together

popˈcorn noun

1. Maize burst open and swelled by heating
2. A kind of maize suitable for this

popˈ-eye noun

A prominent or protruding eye

popˈ-eyed adjective

1. Having prominent or protruding eyes
2. Open-eyed, agog (as from interest, excitement, etc)

popˈ-fastener noun

A press-stud

popˈgun noun

1. A tube for shooting pellets by compressed air
2. A contemptible gun

popˈover noun

A thin hollow cake or pudding made from batter

poppˈing-crease see under crease¹

popˈ-shop noun (informal)

A pawnshop

popˈsock noun

A woman's nylon stocking reaching up to the knee

popˈ-top noun (N American)

A ring pull (qv under ring¹)

popˈ-under noun (computing)

An additional window, usu containing an advertisement, that is activated when accessing a particular website but remains hidden until the main window is closed

popˈ-up adjective

1. (of appliances, books, etc) having mechanisms or pages that rise or move quickly upwards
2. (of a menu) appearing when an option is selected (computing)
3. (of a shop, restaurant, etc) opening quickly but temporarily

An additional window, usu containing an advertisement, that appears on a computer screen when accessing a particular website

popˈ-visit noun

A visit at an odd time, a casual visit

popˈ-weed noun

Bladderwort

a pop (informal)

1. Each
2. Apiece

pop off (informal)

1. To make off
2. To die
3. To fall asleep

pop one's clogs see under clog

pop the question (informal)

To make an offer of marriage

take or have a pop at (informal)

1. To criticize or attack, esp in public
2. To try out

pop² /pop/ (informal)

Popular

Currently popular music (also pop music), esp the type characterized by a strong rhythmic element and the use of electrical amplification

poppˈish or poppˈy adjective

Of or like pop music

pop art noun

Art drawing deliberately on commonplace material of modern urbanized life

pop artist noun

pop concert noun

A concert at which pop music is played

pop culture noun

Commercial and leisure activity based on pop music

pop festival noun

pop group noun

A (usu small) group of musicians who play pop music

pop record noun

pop singer noun

pop song noun

top of the pops (old)

1. (of a recording) currently (among) the most popular in terms of sales
2. Currently very much in favour (figurative)

pop.

1. Popular
2. Popularly
3. Population

poppa /popˈə/ (informal, esp N American)

Papa (short form pop or pops)

poppet¹ /popˈit/

1. A darling (short form pop)
2. A puppet (obsolete)
3. A doll (obsolete)
4. A timber support used in launching a ship
5. A lathe-head
6. A valve that lifts bodily (also poppˈet-valve)

poppˈet-head noun

A framework with pulleys for ropes at the top of a mineshaft

popular /popˈū-lər/

1. Of the people
2. Pleasing to, enjoying the favour of or prevailing among the people
3. Liked by one's associates
4. Suited to the understanding or the means of ordinary people
5. Seeking the favour of the common people (obsolete)
6. Democratic
7. Plebeian (obsolete)
8. Vulgar (obsolete)

Something popular, such as a popular or moderate-priced concert, (tabloid) newspaper, etc (short form pop; cf pop²)

popularity /-larˈi-ti/ noun

1. The fact or state of being popular
2. Seeking to gain favour with the people

popularīzāˈtion or popularīsāˈtion noun

popˈularize or popˈularise transitive verb

1. To make popular
2. To democratize
3. To present in a manner suited to ordinary people
4. To spread among the people

popˈularīzer or popˈularīser noun

popˈularly adverb

popˈulate transitive verb

1. To people
2. To supply with inhabitants
3. To fill in (a cell etc) with data (computing)
4. To devastate (obsolete)

To multiply by propagation

Inhabited, peopled

populāˈtion noun

1. The act of populating
2. The number of inhabitants
3. The number of inhabitants of a particular class
4. The plants or animals in a given area
5. A group of persons, objects or items considered statistically

popˈulism noun

popˈulist noun

1. (in the USA) a member of the People's Party, founded in 1891, advocating public ownership of public services, graduated income tax, etc, or of a similar party elsewhere (historical)
2. Someone who believes in the right and ability of the common people to play a major part in governing themselves
3. A supporter, wooer or student of the common people

(of a political or social programme, cause, etc) appealing to the mass of the people

popˈulous adjective

1. Full of people
2. Numerously inhabited
3. Numerous (Shakespeare)
4. Popular (rare)

popˈulously adverb

popˈulousness noun

popular etymology noun

Folk etymology

popular front noun

An alliance of the more progressive or left-wing political parties in the state

population explosion see under explode

population inversion noun (physics)

The reversal of the normal ratio of populations of two different energy states, ie, that normally fewer and fewer atoms occupy states of successively higher energies

• self-assurances
• self-assured
• self-assuredly
• self-aware
• self-awareness
• self-balancing
• self-basting
• self-begot
• self-begotten
• self-betrayal
• self-betrayals
• self-binder
• self-binders
• self-blinded
• self-born
• self-bounty
• self-breath
• self-build
• self-built
• self-capacitance
• self-catering
• self-centred
• self-centredly
• self-centredness
• self-certificate