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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A variety of corn, Zea mays everta, having hard kernels that burst to form white, irregularly shaped puffs when heated.
  2. n. The edible popped kernels of this variety of corn.
  3. n. A small piece, as of polystyrene, used in quantity to protect items during packaging and shipment.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One of several varieties of Indian corn suitable for “popping.” They have small ears and kernels, the latter white, yellow, or red, sharp-pointed or not. Pop-corn abounds in oil. the expansion of which under heat causes an explosion, in which the contents of the kernel become puffed out, nearly hiding the seed-coat, and assuming a pure-white color.
  2. n. Corn thus prepared; popped corn.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating.
  2. n. knitting A kind of stitch similar to a bobble.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Popped corn; corn which has been popped.
  2. n. See pop corn under pop, n..

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat
  2. n. small kernels of corn exploded by heat

Etymologies

  1. From English popped (shortned) + corn (Wiktionary)
  2. Contraction of popped corn. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. pop corn

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  1. Indian corn
  1. maize
  1. corn
  1. zea mays
  1. edible corn

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  8. better-looking
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  2. home-brewed
  3. underskirt
  4. log-built
  5. attorney-client
  6. lime-juice
  7. enough
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  3. yeux
  4. salotto
  5. whene'er
  6. forcemeat
  7. unsweetened
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  2. lemonade
  3. pizza
  4. gingerbread
  5. ice cream
  6. cereal
  7. cracker
  8. biscuit
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  2. croissant
  3. snack
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  1. popper
  1. Cracker Jack
  1. popcorn ball

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  • pterodactyl To answer uselessness's question, three years late... this is what I think of when I hear the word "popcorn". Oct 27, 2010

  • bilby
    Sing a song of pop corn
    When the snowstorms rage;
    Fifty little brown men
    Put into a cage.
    Shake them till they laugh and leap
    Crowding to the top;
    Watch them burst their little coats
    Pop! Pop! Pop!
    - Nancy Byrd Turner, 'A Pop Corn Song'. Nov 1, 2008

  • reesetee Haha! Love the image of the American Behemoth cruising tiny German streets. :-) May 15, 2008

  • dontcry We had a Country Squire with fake wood panels on the sides. It had electric windows and seat belts! We took it over to Germany when we lived there and it looked like a bus compared to the small German cars! We made quite a scene! May 15, 2008

  • reesetee My parents tried that too. Regular rotations. But then the ol' carsick one had to throw off the whole routine.... May 15, 2008

  • trivet Oh, no - my family believed in fair turns and the like, so there was a regular rotation. Except for the littlest, who always got to ride up front. I swear, that child could puke on command. May 15, 2008

  • reesetee I always had to jockey for a second-row seat in the ol' station wagon to avoid motion sickness from riding backwards. :-( May 15, 2008

  • trivet I spent many hours in the way back as a child - playing animal cribbage and getting dizzy from exhaust fumes when the window was open. Good times. May 14, 2008

  • oroboros Wow! "Way back" evokes fond memories too, although we called it the "way far back" :-) May 14, 2008

  • dontcry Popcorn makes me think of being in my pj's, in the "way back" of the station wagon (seats down) with my brothers and pillows. My parents are in the front bench seat and we're at the drive-in on a summer night eating popcorn out of a paper bag. Yum! May 14, 2008

  • bilby Nice John! May 14, 2008

  • john Faith Popcorn? Who reminds me of William Gibson's excellent book, Pattern Recognition.

    If Faith was really all that, she'd have divined that flash introduction pages to web sites were recognized as annoying and useless back in 2000. Sep 10, 2007

  • reesetee Let's see...now I think of that Colorado guy who has a horrible lung condition because he's been eating two bags of microwave popcorn every day for 10 years and breathing in diacetyl, the chemical that gives microwave popcorn its buttery flavor.

    Before I read that news article, I associated it with its aroma, movie theaters when I was a kid, and my favorite bar in the city (which had a popcorn machine).

    The news spoils everything. ;-) Sep 10, 2007

  • uselessness Okay, word association time! What do you think of when you hear the word popcorn?

    A smell? A flavor? A sound? A color? A texture? A memory? A picture? Sep 10, 2007

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