popcorn

1. A snack food made from corn or maize kernels popped by dry heating. (uncountable) · My friends and I ordered popcorn during the interval of the movie.
2. A variety of corn or maize with a hard outer hull that, along with the type of starch it contains, makes it suitable for popping. (uncountable) · That farm grows popcorn.
3. A serving of popcorn. (countable) · I'll have a small popcorn.
4. A bite-size food preparation made by battering and deep-frying one or more ingredients, most often chicken. (countable, uncountable) · popcorn chicken· Last night we had popcorn chicken.
5. Entertainment that is, or has the potential to be, popular but is vapid and provides little intellectual or artistic merit. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) · The movie was entertaining enough, but it was just popcorn entertainment.· popcorn movies
6. Entertainment for observers. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) · If they get in a fight, I'm just going to sit back and enjoy the popcorn.
7. A kind of stitch similar to a bobble. (countable, uncountable)
8. A form of brainstorming in which participants call out their ideas immediately, instead of waiting for an assigned turn to speak. (countable, uncountable)

Plural popcorns