Meaning of pop in English

pop

noun

/pɒp/ us

/pɑːp/

pop noun (MUSIC)

(formal popular music)

modern popular music, usually with a strong beat, created with electrical or electronic equipment, and easy to listen to and remember:

What do you want to listen to - jazz, classical, or pop?

pop music They play everything from traditional folk tunes to contemporary pop music.

pop song They write great pop songs that you can listen to over and over.

pop concert In the summer, there are open-air pop concerts in the park.

pop charts The song reached number 32 in the pop charts.

pop star She wants to be a pop star like Lady Gaga.

pop singer She's an Australian pop singer and songwriter.

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Do you prefer classical music like Mozart and Mahler, or pop?
She's the most exciting British singer to emerge on the pop scene for a decade.
a pop festival
The break-up of the pop group came as no surprise.
There was a pop quiz in history at school today.

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Pop, rock & soul

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pop noun (SOUND)

[ C ]

a short, sharp sound like something exploding:

I heard a pop and the lights went out.

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Sounds made by objects, movement or impact

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Exploding and erupting

pop noun (FATHER)

mainly US informal

(also pops)

a father:

We've lived in the same area since my pop retired.

I wish my pops was around to teach me how to be cool.

[ as form of address ] Hey Pop, can I do anything to help?

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Family: informal names

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pop noun (DRINK)

[ U ] informal

(US usually soda)

a sweet fizzy drink (= with bubbles), usually with a fruit flavour:

a bottle of pop

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Soft drinks

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pop noun (CRITICISM)

take a pop at someone UK informal

to criticize someone, especially in public:

She never expected anyone from her own family to take a pop at her.

pop noun (OCCASION/OBJECT)

[ C usually singular ] US informal

each particular occasion or object in a series:

a pop She gives lectures and gets paid $5,000 a pop.

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Linguistics: both, all, each & every

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pop noun (COLOUR)

informal

something such as a colour that looks very bright and noticeable next to something else:

Last season was all about small pops of colour: a turquoise shoe, an emerald bag, or a slash of scarlet lipstick.

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The qualities of colour

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Being and appearing different

pop noun (POWER)

US informal

power or strength:

These bats are made of good hard wood and have a lot of pop.

He may be small but he's got some pop.

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Power and intensity

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Idiom

go pop

pop

verb

/pɒp/ us

/pɑːp/

-pp-

pop verb (GO)

B2 [ I + adv/prep ] mainly UK informal

to go to a particular place:

pop into I've just got to pop into the bank to get some money.

pop out Paula popped out for a minute.

pop upstairs Would you pop upstairs and see if Grandad is okay?

pop in Why don't you pop in and see us this afternoon?

pop over My brother and his family often pop over for dinner.

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I popped into the shop on the way home from work to get some milk.
Can you pop into the post office for me?
Jackie's just popped to the bank to get some cash.
I'll pop over to Helen's to see if we can borrow a pillow.
We'll pop in and see you later.

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Visiting

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pop verb (SOUND)

C2 [ I or T ]

to (cause something to) make a short explosive sound, often by breaking something:

The kids were popping all the birthday balloons.

The music played and champagne corks popped.

[ I ]

If your ears pop, you experience a strange noise and feeling in your ears as a result of a sudden change in air pressure:

My ears always pop as the plane comes in to land.

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Exploding and erupting

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The ear

pop verb (MOVE)

[ I + adv/prep ]

to move quickly and suddenly, especially from a closed space:

pop out When you open the box, a clown pops out.

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Moving quickly

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pop verb (PUT)

[ T + adv/prep ] informal

to put or take something quickly:

pop something in something If you pop the pizza in the oven now, it'll be ready in 15 minutes.

pop something into something She popped another piece of chocolate into her mouth.

pop something around something He popped his head around the door and said "Lunchtime!"

pop something on Pop your shoes on and let's go.

pop pills informal

to take pills regularly, especially ones containing an illegal drug:

A decade of heavy drinking and popping pills ruined her health.

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Placing and positioning an object

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pop verb (OPEN)

[ T ] US

to open or release something quickly:

The taxi driver said that he stopped immediately and popped the trunk.

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Unfastening and opening

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pop verb (BE NOTICEABLE)

informal

to be very noticeable and bright, especially when seen next to something of a different colour:

Splashes of yellow, blue, pink, and orange pop against a black background.

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Being and appearing different

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pop your collar

(also pop the collar of sth)

to turn up the collar of your shirt, jacket, or coat:

He's the kind of man who wears shoes without socks and pops his collar.

He jokingly popped the collar of his purple striped shirt and said, "Do I look cool?"

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Fashion

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Wearing clothes

Idioms

your eyes pop out of your head
pop your clogs
pop the question

Phrasal verbs

pop off
pop someone off
pop up

pop

adjective [ before noun ]

/pɒp/ us

/pɑːp/

enjoyed by many people and easy to understand:

Dario Fo, the famous Italian playwright, is a pop Pirandello.

"Silence of the Lambs" was pop movie-making at its best.

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Liked, or not liked, by many people

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pop.

/pɒp/ us

/pɑːp/

abbreviation for population :

The village (pop. 3,915) is a bustling river port.

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Environmental issues

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(Definition of pop from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

pop | American Dictionary

pop

verb

/pɑp/

-pp-

pop verb (SOUND)

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[ I/T ]

to make a short little explosive sound, often by bursting something, or to cause this to happen:

[ T ] The kids were popping all the birthday balloons.

pop verb (MOVE)

[ I always + adv/prep ]

to move or appear quickly, suddenly, or when not expected:

McEnroe hits it and the ball pops over his shoulder.

There are lots of good young players popping up these days.

Idiom

a pop

Phrasal verbs

pop (something) in/into something
pop in/into (somewhere)
pop off

pop

adjective [ not gradable ]

/pɑp/

pop adjective [not gradable] (POPULAR)

of or for the general public:

pop art

pop culture

pop music

pop

noun

/pɑp/

pop noun (FATHER)

[ C ] infml

a father:

Hey Pop, can I borrow the car?

pop noun (DRINK)

[ C/U ] regional US

(dated soda pop)

a soft drink

a pop

idiom

infmlfor each one:

The tickets cost $200 a pop.

Note:

Used after an amount of money, esp. a large one.

pop.

noun [ U ]

abbreviation for population (= the number of people living in a place):

Devil’s Lake, N.D. (pop. 7442)

(Definition of pop from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

POP | Business English

POP

noun [ C, usually singular ]

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COMMERCE, MARKETING

abbreviation for point of purchase

(Definition of pop from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of pop

pop

No explicit pop instruction is necessary to deallocate a heap frame.

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When a stack frame is popped, the frame pointer must be set back to the caller's frame.

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Frames are popped by putting them back on a free list.

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As usual, this stack is pushed when a function is called, and popped when control returns.

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Two reasons, time after time, pop up to explain this trend.

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Some of the latter problems pop out of the reading.

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I would not have been allowed to go to pop concerts and never did.

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Sixteen- and twentyfour-track recording provided pop-rock composers with greater opportunities for multiple overdubs and layering parts than ever before.

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It specifies the types of each of the three arguments of pop/3.

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Their 'individual biographies, valued friendship networks, and the institutions they traverse' (p. 36), the book demonstrates, all play determining roles in their responses to pop-culture.

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Policy-makers neglected the promotion of modern folk music, jazz, light entertainment music, pop and rock.

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We tend to conflate the difference between the two, and thus lose the cultural specificity of ' pop/rock'.

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The grasps for the pop bottle, phone, and spray bottle demonstrate how our method takes advantage of concavities whenever possible.

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The stack is then popped so that the open space referred to becomes the active focus space again.

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The policy then emerged from the mist as 'eclectic, entertaining, brazen, unapologetic in its pop-art aspirations, and consequently mostly under-funded'.

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Translations of pop

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música pop, estalo, papai…

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पॉप / सहसा तालाला अधिक महत्व दिलेले, इलेक्ट्रिकल किंवा इलेक्ट्रॉनिक उपकारणांद्वारे तयार केलेले, सहज ऐकता येईल आणि लक्षात राहील असे आधुनिक लोकप्रिय संगीत.…

ポンと音がする, ポンとはじける, （ある場所に）立ち寄る…

patla(t)mak, pop müziği, çağdaş popüler müzik…

pop [feminine], pan [masculine], soda [masculine]…

fer pam!, espetegar, passar per…

knal, plof, prik…

நவீன பிரபலமான இசை, பொதுவாக ஒரு வலுவான துடிப்புடன், மின் அல்லது மின்னணு உபகரணங்களுடன் உருவாக்கப்பட்டது…

पॉप, आधुनिक लोकप्रिय संगीत, जो आम तौर पर ताल-प्रधान होता है…

પોપ સંગીત, (ક્યાંક) પર જાઓ, ફોડવું…

knald, sodavand, knalde…

knall, smäll, puff…

bunyi pop, minuman bergas, meletup…

der Knall, die Brause, knallen…

pop [masculine], smell [neuter], brus [masculine]…

پاپ (مقبول جدید موسیقی), چکر لگانا, پھوڑنا…

уривчастий звук, постріл, шипучий напій…

ప్రజాదరణ ఉన్న ఆధునిక సంగీతం. సాధారణంగా ఎలక్ట్రికల్ లేక ఎలక్ట్రానిక్ సాధనాలతో సృష్టించే గట్టి లయతో ఉంటుంది. వినటానికీ గుర్తుపెట్టుకోవటానికీ సులువుగా ఉంటుంది., ఒక కోతుకు వెళ్లడం, తరచుగా దేనినైనా విచ్ఛిన్నం చేయడం ద్వారా చిన్న పేలుడు ధ్వని రావడానికి కారణమవు…

পপ সঙ্গীত, বৈদ্যুতিক বা বৈদ্যুতিন সরঞ্জামের দ্বারা সৃষ্টি করা জোরালো তালসহ আধুনিক জনপ্রিয় পপ সঙ্গীত সহজে যা শোনা যায় এবং মনে রাখা যায়, হঠাৎ…

bouchnutí, šumivý nápoj, (nechat) bouchnout…

letupan, limun, meletuskan…

เสียงดังเปาะ, น้ำอัดลม, ทำให้เกิดเสียงดัง…

tiếng nổ bốp, đồ uống có ga, nổ…

strzelać, pękać, (muzyka) pop…