Pop

Quick meaning: Pop is a noun meaning (countable) A loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle, especially when the contents are pressurized by fizziness.

Meaning

(countable) A loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle, especially when the contents are pressurized by fizziness.

More Meanings

1. A pop shot: a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm.
2. (colloquial, in the phrase "a pop") A quantity dispensed; a portion; apiece.
3. Something that stands out or is distinctive to the mind or senses.
4. (computing) The removal of a data item from the top of a stack.
5. A bird, the European redwing.
6. (uncountable, regional, Midwestern US, Canada, Inland Northern American, Midlands, Northwestern US, Western Pennsylvania, Northern England) An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.
7. (countable, regional, Midwestern US, Inland Northern American, Northwestern US, Canada, Western Pennsylvania) A bottle, can, or serving of effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; a soda pop.

Example Sentences

They cost 50 pence a pop.

Listen to the pop of a champagne cork.

Go in the store and buy us three pops.

Lunch was sandwiches and a bottle of pop.

Word Forms

• pops
• popping
• popped
• pope

Synonyms for pop

Depending on context, synonyms include peek, nip, tonic, bulge, daddy, protrude.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include popular, protrude, pop out, old man, dada, dad.

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