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Popping

noun

1.

A sharp explosive sound as from a gunshot or drawing a cork. Synonym: pop.

Pop

verb

(past & past part. popped; pres. part. popping)

1.

Bulge outward. Synonyms: bug out, bulge, bulge out, come out, pop out, protrude, start.

2.

Hit a pop-fly.

3.

Make a sharp explosive noise.

4.

Fire a weapon with a loud explosive noise.

5.

Cause to make a sharp explosive sound.

6.

Appear suddenly or unexpectedly. Synonyms: crop up, pop up. "He suddenly popped up out of nowhere"

7.

Put or thrust suddenly and forcefully. "He popped the petit-four into his mouth"

8.

Release suddenly.

9.

Hit or strike.

10.

Drink down entirely. Synonyms: belt down, bolt down, down, drink down, kill, pour down, toss off. "She killed a bottle of brandy that night" , "They popped a few beer after work"

11.

Take drugs, especially orally.

12.

Cause to burst with a loud, explosive sound.

13.

Burst open with a sharp, explosive sound. "This popcorn pops quickly in the microwave oven"

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"Popping" Quotes from Famous Books

... you are most uneasy. The trail of Germanicus in Italy to-day ramifies further and bites perhaps even deeper; a proof of which is, precisely, that his eclipse in the Blue Grotto is inexorably brief, that here he is popping out again, bobbing enthusiastically back and scrambling triumphantly back. The spirit, in truth, of his effective appropriation of Capri has a broad-faced candour against which there is no standing ...

— Italian Hours • Henry James

... lay flat on their faces; one or two orderlies got under the train; one went on fishing in the pond close by, and the wounded Tommies got rather excited, and translated the different sounds of "them Jack Johnsons" and "them Coal-boxes" and "Calamity Kate," and of our guns and a machine-gun popping. There is a troop train just behind us that they may be potting at, or some gunners in the village, or the R.E. camp. There have been two aeroplanes over us this afternoon. You hear the shell coming a long way off, rather like a falsetto motor-engine, ...

— Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 • Anonymous

... a trifling reward for his capture," cried Shotbolt, popping his head from under the cloth. "If we take him, I don't mind giving you a share—say a fourth—provided you lend a ...

— Jack Sheppard - A Romance • William Harrison Ainsworth

... slowpokes," said Grace Harlowe, popping her head in the door. "Tom Gray is here. He and David are waiting outside with their cars. We are all going up to Nesbit's for a jollification given in honor of Rosalind, who is at present dressed in everyday clothes and shaking ...

— Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School - Or, Fast Friends in the Sororities • Jessie Graham Flower

... order to request some members of the audience to stop talking. These speakers were people in the stalls, and the composer-conductor could hear that their conversation was about shopping—not Chopin, which, alas! is sometimes pronounced as if the name rhymed with "popping." ...

— Our Stage and Its Critics • "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"

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