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verb

Pop v. t.

1.

To thrust or push suddenly; to offer suddenly; to bring suddenly and unexpectedly to notice; as, to pop one's head in at the door. "He popped a paper into his hand."

2.

To cause to pop; to cause to burst open by heat, as grains of Indian corn; as, to pop corn or chestnuts.

3.

To eat or swallow; of food, especially snacks, in small pieces; as, he popped a whole can of peanuts while watching the movie.

To pop off,

(a)

to thrust away, or put off promptly; as, to pop one off with a denial.

(b)

to make a statement, or series of statements, forcefully and in an opinionated manner; as, he popped off about his dislike of modern art.

To pop the question, to make an offer of marriage to a lady. (Colloq.)

Pop v. i. (past & past part. popped; pres. part. popping)

1.

To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound; as, the muskets popped away on all sides.

2.

To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart; with in, out, upon, off, etc. "He that killed my king... Popp'd in between the election and my hopes." "A trick of popping up and down every moment."

3.

To burst open with a pop, when heated over a fire; as, this corn pops well.

adjective

Popping adj. A. & n. from Pop.

Popping crease. (Cricket) See under Crease.

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Etymology of 'Popping'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Popping" Quotes from Famous Books

... next, and the next, no better success. Bird after bird rose, and flew away before our noses, as if in sheer ridicule of such idle popping, till I felt myself degraded in the eyes of the very partridges. Half the morning we passed in this way, wasting time and temper, powder and shot; and the birds, as I well knew, despising us for missing them, till my patience was quite exhausted, and I longed to go home. Still, I remembered ...

— Cat and Dog - Memoirs of Puss and the Captain • Julia Charlotte Maitland

... for many reasons, most of all perhaps because many of the visitors saw each other for the first time in clothes—in land clothes, I mean—and it is wonderful how much smarter some of them looked than when popping red or brown faces, with lank wisps of hair on them, ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 1st, 1920 • Various

... conversation because of the annoyance occasioned by the habit which some people have of invariably taking more butter than they want. Have you not seen the anxious look (almost mesmeric) which such persons fix on the article? They would feel it a relief if they might bury it out of their sight by popping it into their own mouths and swallowing it down; and they are really made happy if the person on whose plate it lies unused suddenly breaks off a piece of toast (which he does not want at all) and eats up his butter. They think that this ...

— Cranford • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... waiting pause that ensued after the room was well filled, Mr. Elliott was called upon to bless this feast, which he did in a raised, impressive and finely modulated voice. Then came the rattle of plates and the clink of glasses, followed by the popping of champagne and the multitudinous and distracting Babel ...

— Danger - or Wounded in the House of a Friend • T. S. Arthur

... manner in the dancing-room. For the "English woman," as Agy, the wife of Severin, the building contractor, was still called, had come to the dance with her children. The rich wood-merchants set the champagne corks to popping and offered a glass to the English woman; she drank the health of the young couple and then made each one happy by a gracious word. A constant and complacent smile was lighting up the face of everybody. Agy honored ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VIII • Various

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