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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To make a short, sharp, explosive sound.
2. v. To burst open with a short, sharp, explosive sound.
3. v. To move quickly or unexpectedly; appear abruptly: At last the cottage popped into view.
4. v. To open wide suddenly: The child's eyes popped with astonishment.
5. v. Baseball To hit a short high fly ball, especially one that can be caught by an infielder: popped out to shortstop.
6. v. To shoot a firearm, such as a pistol.
7. v. To release (a clutch) suddenly.
8. v. To cause to make a sharp bursting sound.
9. v. To cause to explode with a sharp bursting sound: popped the balloon.
10. v. To put or thrust suddenly or unexpectedly: "popping a crisp plump shrimp into her mouth” ( Kathleen Winsor).
11. v. To discharge (a firearm).
12. v. To fire at; shoot.
13. v. To hit or strike: popped me on the head.
14. v. Baseball To hit (a ball) high in the air but not far.
15. v. Slang To take (drugs), especially orally: "To calm a case of the jitters . . . the bride popped Valium” ( People).
16. v. Slang To have (a drink): popped a few beers after work.
17. n. A sudden sharp, explosive sound.
18. n. A shot with a firearm.
19. n. Chiefly Midwestern U.S. See soft drink. See Regional Note at tonic.
20. n. Baseball A pop fly.
21. adv. With a popping sound.
22. adv. Abruptly or unexpectedly.
23. pop for Informal To pay for: I'll pop for the video if you buy some snacks.
24. pop in To visit briefly: just popped by to say hello.
25. pop off Informal To leave abruptly or hurriedly.
26. pop off Informal To die suddenly.
27. pop off Informal To speak thoughtlessly in a burst of released anger.
28. idiom. a pop Slang Apiece; each: Tickets to the benefit were $100 a pop.
29. idiom. pop the question Informal To propose marriage.
30. n. Informal Father.
31. adj. Of or for the general public; popular or popularized: pop culture; pop psychology.
32. adj. Of, relating to, or specializing in popular music: a pop singer.
33. adj. Of or suggestive of pop art: a pop style.
34. n. Popular music.
35. n. Pop art.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To make a quick sudden explosive report.
2. To appear or issue forth with a quick sudden motion; come suddenly into view; also, to disappear suddenly.
3. To propose marriage.
4. To cause to make a sudden explosive report.
5. To thrust forward, or offer suddenly or abruptly; put or thrust suddenly: with in, into, out, or upon.
6. To thrust aside or put off abruptly or unexpectedly.
7. To put suddenly: as, to pop the question. See phrase below.
8. To pawn, or pledge with a pawnbroker.
9. n. A smart explosive sound or small report like that made in drawing a cork from a bottle.
10. n. An effervescent beverage: so called from the sound made by the expulsion of the cork: as, ginger-pop.
11. n. A pistol.
12. Suddenly; abruptly; with unexpected entrance or exit.
13. To strike.
14. To smear (the face) with white lead or other cosmetics; powder (the face).
15. n. A stroke.
16. n. The redwinged thrush, Turdus iliacus. C. Swainson.
17. n. A contraction of popular: as, the Monday pops (popular concerts).
18. n. The time during which a reaction or pop safety-valve stays open.
19. n. A colloquial shortening of popcorn: as, the golden pops. See maize, 1.
20. n. An abbreviation of population.

Wiktionary

1. n. countable A loud, sharp sound as of a cork coming out of a bottle.
2. n. uncountable, colloquial An effervescent or fizzy drink most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.
3. n. countable, colloquial A bottle, can, or serving of effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.
4. n. Shortened from pop shot: a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm. Possibly confusion, by assonance, with pot as in pot shot.
5. n. colloquial A portion, a quantity dispensed.
6. n. computing The removal of a data item from the top of a stack.
7. v. ergative To burst (something): to cause to burst.
8. v. To act suddenly, unexpectedly or quickly.
9. v. To hit.
10. v. To ejaculate.
11. v. computing To remove (a data item) from the top of a stack.
12. v. UK To place (something) (somewhere).
13. v. transitive, slang To swallow (a tablet of a drug).
14. v. transitive, informal To perform (a move or stunt) while riding a board or vehicle.
15. v. intransitive To undergo equalization of pressure when the Eustachian tubes open.
16. interj. Sound made in imitation of the sound.
17. n. colloquial Affectionate form of father.
18. adj. used attributively in set phrases Popular.
19. n. Pop music.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A small, sharp, quick explosive sound or report.
2. n. A nonalcoholic carbonated beverage; -- so called because it expels the cork with a pop from the bottle containing it
3. n. (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. The European redwing.
4. v. To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound.
5. v. 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.
6. v. To burst open with a pop, when heated over a fire.
7. v. To thrust or push suddenly; to offer suddenly; to bring suddenly and unexpectedly to notice.
8. v. To cause to pop; to cause to burst open by heat, as grains of Indian corn.
9. v. To eat or swallow; -- of food, especially snacks, in small pieces.
10. adv. Like a pop; suddenly; unexpectedly.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. bulge outward
2. v. release suddenly
3. v. hit a pop-fly
4. v. drink down entirely
5. v. cause to burst with a loud, explosive sound
6. v. put or thrust suddenly and forcefully
7. v. burst open with a sharp, explosive sound
8. adv. like a pop or with a pop
9. v. appear suddenly or unexpectedly
10. v. take drugs, especially orally
11. n. an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
12. v. fire a weapon with a loud explosive noise
13. adj. (of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially among young people)
14. v. cause to make a sharp explosive sound
15. n. a sweet drink containing carbonated water and flavoring
16. v. make a sharp explosive noise
17. v. hit or strike
18. n. 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
19. n. a sharp explosive sound as from a gunshot or drawing a cork