Definition of Pop

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Definition of Pop

Pop

A small, sharp, quick explosive sound or report; as, to go off with a pop.

An unintoxicating beverage which expels the cork with a pop from the bottle containing it; as, ginger pop; lemon pop, etc.

The European redwing.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Like a pop; suddenly; unexpectedly.

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Pop Quotations

Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.
Andy Warhol

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
Jackie Robinson

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.
Richard Branson

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.
David Bowie

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.
John Travolta

I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.
Edward de Bono

I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.
Kevin Bacon

It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.
Cat Stevens

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.
Van Morrison

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
Billie Holiday

Pop Translations

pop in German is Pop, hervorholen
pop in Spanish is estallido

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