pop – English noun declension

English noun forms of pop

Noun: pop
Singularpop
Pluralpops

Sample Sentences

  • Listen to the pop of a champagne cork.
  • Lunch was sandwiches and a bottle of pop.
  • You have not taken anything off "pop" yet, and "pop" is the working-class drink. For the working-classes it is "pop" and cockles, just as with the upper classes it is champagne and oysters. [1923, Ben Turner, “Estate Duty”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons), column 186:]
  • The best thing on the table was a tray full of bottles of lemon pop. [1941 September 8, LIFE, page 27:]
  • Go in the store and buy us three pops.
  • The man with the gun took a pop at the rabbit.
  • They cost 50 pence a pop.
  • British rockers Radiohead solved the "music is dead" dispute last year by allowing fans to name a price for the group's new album, In Rainbows. (More than a million albums sold in the first week alone, at an average $8 a pop). [2008 January–February, Matt Bean, “Your cultural calendar: 7 things to look forward to this year”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 134:]
  • a white dress with a pop of red
  • a pop of vanilla flavour
  • Nothing screams fall like corduroy! I'm loving this deep seafoam green shacket—made of the thick, ribbed material—that'll give a fab pop of color to a muted ensemble. [2023 November 4, Kim Duong, Megan Uy, Tarah-Lynn Saint-Elien, “22 Best Shackets to Get You Through the Chilly Fall Weather”, in Cosmopolitan:]
  • Pushes and pops change the stack; indexing just accesses it. [2011, Mark Lutz, Programming Python, page 1371:]
  • And then I got a shock, for a couple of ragged patriots standing close by, leaned over as Elliot moved, their eyes shining viciously, and quick as winking out came their pops, and I saw them ready and willing, yes, darned anxious to shoot. [1916, Adventure, volume 13, numbers 1-3, page 129:]
  • Immature peanuts, called "pops," are often included when the peanuts are boiled at home […] [1986, Mid-America Folklore, volume 14, page 6:]
  • If the peanuts weren't yet mature, boiling them would make the tiny nuts—or “pops,” as they're called at that immature stage—swell up and become more filling. [2013, Becky Billingsley, A Culinary History of Myrtle Beach & the Grand Strand:]
  • Although they go by many names across the world freezer pop, ice-pole, pop stick icy-pole ice pop, tip top and ice candy but in the hoods of America they are known and respected as Freeze Pops. The pops are made by freezing flavored liquid such as sugar water, Kool-Aid or some form of fruit juice or purée inside a plastic tube - at least the kinds we ate. [2017, Kenny Attaway, Black Cream: A Handful of Sky & a Pocketful of Confetti:]

Etymology

From Middle English pop, poppe (“a blow; strike; buffet”) (> Middle English poppen (“to strike; thrust”, verb)), of onomatopoeic origin – used to describe the sound, or short, sharp actions. The physics sense is part of a facetious sequence "snap, crackle, pop", after the mascots of Rice Krispies cereal.

Verbs referencing "pop"

Danish Nouns pop, Finnish Nouns pop, Hungarian Nouns pop, German Nouns Pop, Faroese Nouns poppur.