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pop(3) (iou)



pop noun1 & verb. LME.
[Imit.: cf. POP adverb.]
A. noun.
a. A blow, a knock, a slap; a slight rap or tap. obsolete exc. dial. LME.
b. Baseball. A ball hit high into the air but close to the batter, providing an easy catch. N. Amer. M20.
Philadelphia Inquirer Don Baylor then hit a routine pop down the third-base line.
c. An injection of a narcotic drug. slang. M20.
A short abrupt explosive sound, as of a cork being drawn. Also (dial., rare), the length of time taken by this, a moment, an instant. M16.
b. A turn at doing something; an attempt, a go. M19.
T. Barling The first shots sounded, faint dry pops like bursting cartons.
c. The rapid opening of a pop-valve. E20.
New Yorker Blum Helman had sold the show out..at sixty thousand dollars a pop.
a. A shot with a firearm. M17.
Jayne Phillips One of the choppers just below us..took a rocket...We were taking pops ourselves.
b. transf. A pistol. slang. E18.
A mark made by a slight rapid touch; a dot, a spot; spec. the mark made in branding a sheep. E18.
An effervescing drink, as ginger beer or champagne, so called from the sound made when a cork is drawn from such a drink. colloq. E19.
ginger-pop, soda-pop, etc.
Beano Your prize in the lemonade competition..ten years' supply of pop!
The action of pawning something. slang. M19.
The ability of a horse to jump fences or other obstacles, esp. with spirit. colloq. L20.
Phrases: in pop in pawn. snap, crackle, and pop, snap, crackle, pop: see SNAP noun.
b. verb. Infl. -pp-.
verb trans. Strike, hit; rap, knock. LME.
Boxing Scene In the first round, he popped me with a left hook and knocked me down.
verb trans. Put promptly, suddenly, or unexpectedly (in, on, out, etc.). Formerly also, push or thrust up. L15.
pop one's clogs slang die.
T. Roethke I had just popped a letter into the box when I got yours. B. Bainbridge Ask him for some more pills and pop them in her morning tea. M. Stott Anyone can pop a bag of frozen kippers into a saucepan. Horse & Rider Pop the horse over a couple of jumps.
b. verb trans. Put or ask (a question) abruptly (chiefly in pop the question below). E18.
pop the question colloq. propose marriage.
verb intrans. Pass, move, go, or come promptly, suddenly, or unexpectedly (down, in, out, over, up, etc.). M16.
pop in and out visit or come and go frequently or casually.
S. Plath The words just popped out of my mouth. Beano Pop down to the store and pick up the groceries. C. Wilson Mozart once said that lengthy tunes were always popping into his head. J. Howker People started popping round to each other's houses to borrow things.
b. Come on or upon suddenly or unexpectedly; happen upon. M18.
verb intrans. Make a small quick explosive sound; burst or explode with such a sound. L16.
V. Woolf The seaweed which pops when it is pressed. E. Waugh Another bottle of champagne popped festively in the parlour.
b. Of the ears: 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. M20.
verb trans. Cause to explode with or make a pop; spec. heat (maize or Indian corn) until the kernels swell up and burst open with an explosive sound, make (popcorn) in this way. L16.
G. F. Newman Occasionally Carney popped a flash with his camera, sending more rats scurrying.
b. Open (a can of drink etc.) by pulling a tab or ring-pull, making a small explosive sound. colloq. (chiefly N. Amer.). L20.
a. verb intrans. Shoot, fire a gun. Formerly also, (of a gun) go off. (Foll. by at, off.) colloq. L16.
b. verb trans. Shoot (down). M18.
N. Freeling He had taken a shotgun and popped three vandals: one died.
verb intrans. Of the eye: protrude, bulge out. L17.
A. Lurie That's what you were hoping for, wasn't it? Your eyes were positively popping.
a. verb intrans. Die. slang. Usu. foll. by off. M18.
F. Burney What a pity it would have been had I popped off in my last illness.
b. verb trans. Kill. slang. Usu. foll. by off. E19.
verb trans. Pawn. slang. M18.
G. Greene She..gave me presents and I popped them when I needed some ready.
a. verb trans. & intrans. Baseball. Hit (a ball) high in the air but close to the batter, providing an easy catch. (Foll. by out, up.) N. Amer. M19.
b. verb intrans. Cricket. Of a ball: rise sharply off the pitch when bowled. (Foll. by up.) L19.
Pay (for). slang. M20.
verb intrans. Foll. by off: speak angrily or hastily; complain loudly; lose one's temper. US colloq. M20.
verb trans. & intrans. Inject or take (a drug, esp. a narcotic drug). slang. M20.
E. Jong My father was popping Libriums by the minute.
verb trans. Computing. Retrieve (a piece of data, etc.) from the top of a stack. Also (foll. by up), remove the top element of (a stack). M20.
Comb.: pop-bottle a bottle for an effervescing drink; pop-call US a sudden or unexpected visit; pop-eye a protruding, prominent eye (usu. in pl.) (cf. POP-EYED adjective); pop fly = sense A.1 above; pop-hole a hole in a hedge, fence, etc., through which animals can pass; pop-off (a) (now rare) the discharge of firearms; (b) pop-off valve, a safety valve which operates with a pop; pop-rivet (a) noun a tubular rivet, to be inserted into a hole and clinched by the withdrawing of a central mandrel, used where only one side of the work is accessible; (b) verb trans. secure or fasten with pop-rivets; pop-shop slang a pawnshop; pop-top N. Amer. (a can of drink to be opened by) a tab or ring-pull; pop-valve in steam engines, a spring-loaded safety valve designed to open or close very rapidly at a predetermined pressure; pop-visit a quick or unannounced visit.