PoP
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
pop
adv 1: like a pop or with a pop; "everything went pop"
adj 1: (of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially
among young people) [syn: {popular}, {pop}]
n 1: an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby
talk [syn: {dad}, {dada}, {daddy}, {pa}, {papa}, {pappa},
{pop}]
2: a sweet drink containing carbonated water and flavoring; "in
New England they call sodas tonics" [syn: {pop}, {soda},
{soda pop}, {soda water}, {tonic}]
3: a sharp explosive sound as from a gunshot or drawing a cork
[syn: {pop}, {popping}]
4: music of general appeal to teenagers; a bland watered-down
version of rock'n'roll with more rhythm and harmony and an
emphasis on romantic love [syn: {pop music}, {pop}]
v 1: bulge outward; "His eyes popped" [syn: {start}, {protrude},
{pop}, {pop out}, {bulge}, {bulge out}, {bug out}, {come
out}]
2: hit a pop-fly; "He popped out to shortstop"
3: make a sharp explosive noise; "The cork of the champagne
bottle popped"
4: fire a weapon with a loud explosive noise; "The soldiers were
popping"
5: cause to make a sharp explosive sound; "He popped the
champagne bottle"
6: appear suddenly or unexpectedly; "The farm popped into view
as we turned the corner"; "He suddenly popped up out of
nowhere" [syn: {crop up}, {pop up}, {pop}]
7: put or thrust suddenly and forcefully; "pop the pizza into
the microwave oven"; "He popped the petit-four into his
mouth"
8: release suddenly; "pop the clutch"
9: hit or strike; "He popped me on the head"
10: drink down entirely; "He downed three martinis before
dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"; "They
popped a few beer after work" [syn: {toss off}, {pop}, {bolt
down}, {belt down}, {pour down}, {down}, {drink down},
{kill}]
11: take drugs, especially orally; "The man charged with murder
popped a valium to calm his nerves"
12: cause to burst with a loud, explosive sound; "The child
popped the balloon"
13: burst open with a sharp, explosive sound; "The balloon
popped"; "This popcorn pops quickly in the microwave oven"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Soda \So"da\, n. [It., soda, in OIt., ashes used in making
glass, fr. L. solida, fem. of solidus solid; solida having
probably been a name of glasswort. See {Solid}.]
1. (Chem.)
(a) Sodium oxide or hydroxide.
(b) Popularly, sodium carbonate or bicarbonate. Sodium
bicarbonate is also called {baking soda}
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2. same as {sodium}, used in terms such as {bicarbonate of
soda}.
[PJC]
3. same as {soda water}.
[PJC]
4. a non-alcoholic beverage, sweetened by various means,
containing flavoring and supersaturated with carbon
dioxide, so as to be effervescent when the container is
opened; -- in different localities it is variously called
also {soda pop}, {pop}, {mineral water}, and {minerals}.
It has many variants. The sweetening agent may be natural,
such as cane sugar or corn syrup, or artificial, such as
saccharin or aspartame. The flavoring varies widely,
popular variants being fruit or cola flavoring.
[PJC]
{Caustic soda}, sodium hydroxide.
{Cooking soda}, sodium bicarbonate. [Colloq.]
{Sal soda}. See {Sodium carbonate}, under {Sodium}.
{Soda alum} (Min.), a mineral consisting of the hydrous
sulphate of alumina and soda.
{Soda ash}, crude sodium carbonate; -- so called because
formerly obtained from the ashes of sea plants and certain
other plants, as saltwort ({Salsola}). See under {Sodium}.
{Soda fountain}, an apparatus for drawing soda water, fitted
with delivery tube, faucets, etc.
{Soda lye}, a lye consisting essentially of a solution of
sodium hydroxide, used in soap making.
{Soda niter}. See {Nitratine}.
{Soda salts}, salts having sodium for the base; specifically,
sodium sulphate or Glauber's salts.
{Soda waste}, the waste material, consisting chiefly of
calcium hydroxide and sulphide, which accumulates as a
useless residue or side product in the ordinary Leblanc
process of soda manufacture; -- called also {alkali
waste}.
{Washing soda}, sodium carbonate. [Colloq.]
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Soda pop \So"da pop\, n.
a popular non-alcoholic beverage, sweetened by various means,
containing flavoring and supersaturated with carbon dioxide,
so as to be effervescent when the container is opened; -- in
different localities it is variously called also {soda},
{pop}, {mineral water}, and {minerals}. It has many variants.
The sweetening agent may be natural, such as cane sugar or
corn syrup, or artificial, such as saccharin or aspartame.
The flavoring varies widely, popular variants being fruit
juices, fruit sirups, cream, or cola flavoring; the soda pop
is usually served chilled.
Note: Several large corporations started primarily as
bottlers of soda pop, such as {Coca-Cola},
{Pepsi-Cola}, and {Dr. Pepper}.
[PJC]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pop \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.
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He popped a paper into his hand. --Milton.
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2. To cause to pop; to cause to burst open by heat, as grains
of Indian corn; as, to pop corn or chestnuts.
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3. To eat or swallow; -- of food, especially snacks, in small
pieces; as, he popped a whole can of peanuts while
watching the movie.
[PJC]
{To pop off},
(a) to thrust away, or put off promptly; as, to pop one
off with a denial. --Locke.
(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.] --Dickens.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pop \Pop\, n. [Of imitative origin. Cf. {Poop}.]
1. A small, sharp, quick explosive sound or report; as, to go
off with a pop. --Addison.
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2. A nonalcoholic carbonated beverage; -- so called because
it expels the cork with a pop from the bottle containing
it; as, ginger pop; lemon pop, etc. --Hood.
Syn: soda, soda pop, minerals.
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3. (Zool.) The European redwing. [Prov. Eng.]
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{Pop corn}.
(a) Corn, or maize, of peculiar excellence for popping;
especially, a kind the grains of which are small and
compact.
(b) Popped corn; corn which has been popped.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pop \Pop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Popped} (p[o^]pt); p. pr. & vb.
n. {Popping}.]
1. To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound; as, the muskets
popped away on all sides.
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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.
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He that killed my king . . .
Popp'd in between the election and my hopes. --Shak.
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A trick of popping up and down every moment.
--Swift.
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3. To burst open with a pop, when heated over a fire; as,
this corn pops well.
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from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
pop
/pop/
[from the operation that removes the top of a stack, and the fact that
procedure return addresses are usually saved on the stack] (also
capitalized `POP')
1. vt. To remove something from a {stack}. If a person says he/she has
popped something from his stack, that means he/she has finally
finished working on it and can now remove it from the list of things
hanging overhead.
2. When a discussion gets to a level of detail so deep that the main
point of the discussion is being lost, someone will shout "Pop!",
meaning "Get back up to a higher level!" The shout is frequently
accompanied by an upthrust arm with a finger pointing to the ceiling.
3. [all-caps, as `POP'] Point of Presence, a bank of dial-in lines
allowing customers to make (local) calls into an ISP. This is
borderline techspeak.
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
228 Moby Thesaurus words for "pop":
Babbittish, Babbittry, Methuselah, Philistine, abba, abruptly,
alcoholic drink, antediluvian, antique, back number, bad taste,
bag, ballad, balloon, bang, bark, belly, belly out, beverage,
bilge, billow, blast, bouge, bourgeois, bourgeois taste, bug,
bulge, bump, burst, camp, campiness, campy, catch, chink, click,
clink, clop, clump, clunk, common, commonplace, conservative,
crack, crump, dad, daddy, dash, detonate, detonation, dilate, ding,
dip, discharge, distend, dodo, drink, drinkable, dull thud, elder,
explode, explosion, father, flick, flump, fogy, fossil,
foster father, frosted, frosted shake, fud, fuddy-duddy, fulminate,
fulmination, fusillade, general, genitor, go, go off, goggle,
governor, granny, gunshot, has-been, hastily, high camp, high-camp,
hit, hit tune, hock, homely, homespun, impetuously, impignorate,
impropriety, impulsively, inappropriateness, indecency,
indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, inelegance, inelegancy,
kitsch, kitschy, light music, like a flash, like a thunderbolt,
liquid, liquor, longhair, low camp, low-camp, malt, matriarch,
mid-Victorian, mortgage, mossback, nail, of a sudden, old,
old believer, old crock, old dodo, old fogy, old liner, old man,
old poop, old woman, old-timer, on short notice, ordinary, pa, pad,
pap, papa, pappy, pat, pater, paterfamilias, patriarch, patter,
philistinism, pitapat, pitter-patter, plebeian, pledge, plop,
plump, plunk, pooch, poor taste, pop culture, pop music, pops,
popular, popular music, popular song, potable, potation, pouch,
pout, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, public, rap,
reactionary, regular old fogy, relic, round out, salvo, shake,
sharp, shot, sire, slap, slog, smack, smite, sock, soda, soda pop,
soda water, soft drink, song hit, spout, square, stab, stagger,
starets, startlingly, stepfather, sudden, suddenly, surprisingly,
swat, swell, swell out, tap, tastelessness, the old man, thud,
thump, tick, tinkle, tonic, traditionalist, try, tunk,
unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unawares, unbecomingness,
unexpectedly, unfittingness, unseemliness, unsuitability,
unsuitableness, vernacular, volley, vulgar taste, vulgarism,
vulgarity, vulgarness, whack, whirl, without notice,
without warning
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