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pop

/pɑp/ noun A1
  1. A loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle, especially when the contents are pressurized by fizziness. (countable) · Listen to the pop of a champagne cork.
  2. An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop. (US, uncountable) · Lunch was sandwiches and a bottle of pop.
  3. A bottle, can, or serving of effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; a soda pop. (US, countable) · Go in the store and buy us three pops.
  4. A pop shot: a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm. (countable, uncountable) · The man with the gun took a pop at the rabbit.
  5. A quantity dispensed; a portion. (colloquial, countable, uncountable) · They cost 50 pence a pop.
  6. Something that stands out or is distinctive to the mind or senses. (countable, uncountable) · a white dress with a pop of red· a pop of vanilla flavour
  7. The removal of a data item from the top of a stack. (countable, uncountable)
  8. A bird, the European redwing. (countable, uncountable)

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Green candy and green pop-corn were offered for sale, as well as green shoes, green hats, and green clothes of all sorts.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 64 · B2
I shall be late!” (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually _took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket_, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 1 · B2

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