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Synonyms for pop

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : pop
Phonetic Transcription : pÉ’p

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Définition of pop

Origin :
  • "a hit with an explosive sound," c.1400, of imitative origin. Meaning "flavored carbonated beverage" is from 1812.
  • A new manufactory of a nectar, between soda-water and ginger-beer, and called pop, because 'pop goes the cork' when it is drawn. [Southey, letter, 1812]
  • Sense of "ice cream on a stick" is from 1923 (see popsicle). Meaning "the (brief) time of a 'pop'" is from 1530s. Pop goes the weasel, a country dance, was popular 1850s in school yards, with organ grinders, at court balls, etc.
  • noun bang
  • verb jump, burst
Example sentences :
  • Vaguely, from the corner of his eye, he felt that Pop had taken the pipe from his mouth.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • Pop was putting away the dishes, and Jud was scrubbing out the sink.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • He mastered it, and galloped with a heavy heart up the ravine and to the house of Pop.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • She was a stanch five-year-old, and she had roamed the mountains about Pop's place at will.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • And if I might make so bold, you just pop on your hat and step acrost directly minute.
  • Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
  • The danger signal must pop right into our heads from force of habit.
  • Extract from : « Sure Pop and the Safety Scouts » by Roy Rutherford Bailey
  • That's why he's so pop'lar amongst the Shakespeare Readin' Society and the rest.
  • Extract from : « Fair Harbor » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  • I certainly has no thought of rubbin' wrong-ways the pop'lar bristles.
  • Extract from : « Faro Nell and Her Friends » by Alfred Henry Lewis
  • Explain how gasoline makes a motorcycle go, and why it goes "pop, pop, pop."
  • Extract from : « Common Science » by Carleton W. Washburne
  • But now a waiter was upon them with a bottle which he produced with a pop!
  • Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus

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