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/ˈpɒp.kɔː(ɹ)n/ · noun
(chiefly uncountable) A snack food made from corn or maize kernels popped by dry heating..
My friends and I ordered popcorn during the interval of the movie.
Warner Bros has offered the two executives less than dollars 1m as an out-of-court settlement, a sum dismissed by Mr [Pierce] O'Donnell as 'two popcorns and two Cokes'.
When we went to Astoria, to see 'Drive Me Crazy,' they gave you one popcorn and the other one was free. I asked her if she wanted to eat mine, but she said there was so much popcorn, she was going to get sick.
Every Wednesday night is Date Night, and for $10 sweethearts can get two tickets, two popcorns and two sodas.
Some popcorns silently flicked off like face peelings on his shoe.
Don’t you feel this is nothing but throwing popcorns before a hungry elephant? This is definitely throwing popcorns before the hungry elephant. This is the imbalance that I wanted to pointed out.
Sarani threw a few popcorns into her mouth.
The boat lurches through choppy waves with resonating booms, tourists chatter with excitement, and the woman throwing popcorns squeals whenever our seagull guards reappear, ready for the next assault.
Use popcorn when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Popcorn means (chiefly uncountable) A snack food made from corn or maize kernels popped by dry heating..
Common synonyms include maizypop, popmaize, zea mays everta.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
My friends and I ordered popcorn during the interval of the movie.
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