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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

... stung him behind in so many different places all at one time—he could not have exerted more mechanical functions in fewer seconds—or started half so much, as with one single quaere of three words unseasonably popping in full upon him ...

— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman • Laurence Sterne

... hush brooded, now and again accentuated by a rumble of distant voices and gusts of vacant laughter, once or twice by a curious popping. For a long time he heard nothing else whatever. The effect was singularly disquieting and did its bit to quicken torpid ...

— The False Faces • Vance, Louis Joseph

... minutes late, and, because you've been lonesome all afternoon and need exercise, you slip into your coat and hustle down. Just as you get to the depot, Number Eleven comes in with a crash and a roar, bell ringing, steam popping off, every brake yelling, platforms loaded, expectation intense, confusion terrific, all nerves a-tingle, and fat old Jack Ball, the conductor, lantern under arm, sweeping majestically by on the bottom step of the smoker. Young Red Nolan and Barney Gastit, two of ...

— Homeburg Memories • George Helgesen Fitch

... see the party popping the parapet," grinned Vane. "It's not a thing which anyone does for pleasure. . ...

— Mufti • H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile

... more clutter-headed over the clots," as he expressed it, i.e. more clumsy or thick-headed over the clods. He preferred comparatively light cart-horses to step well. In the heat of the sun the furze-pods kept popping and bursting open; they are often as full of insects as seeds, which come creeping out. A green and black lady-bird—exactly like a tortoise—flew on to my hand. Again on the heath, and the grasshoppers rose at every step, sometimes three or four springing in as ...

— The Open Air • Richard Jefferies

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