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pop-up

pop-up

4 3.7
A book with pages that fold up into small paper scenes
  • noun
  • /ˈpɑːpˌʌp/
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  • The pop-up book of fairy tales has colorful pages that spring out when opened.
  • a pop-up book
  • a pop-up storybook
  • children's pop-ups

Well, that's that's actually no pop up this picture.

Examples

  • And we think that the real thief may have broken into Mr Gruber's just to steal your great-grandmother's pop-up book.

  • Christine was reading one of the pop-up storybooks with Casey, adding her own amusing commentary to the adventures of the animal characters, trying to distract her daughter from the memory of the muffled explosion and subsequent plunge.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • I knew there was something special about that pop-up book.

  • Oh, it was written on the last page of the pop-up book.

  • We'll take that pop-up book as well.

  • The great thing is, it's a pop-up book.

  • Pop-up books are engaging, especially when moving parts are included, as they are in this one.

    Blog text (14)
  • I've got my eye on an old pop-up book of London.

  • It's a pop-up dinosaur book.

  • It's a pop-up book.

Synonyms

pop-up book
vspop-up
3 2.5

A book for children with paper pictures that stand up when opened

is the same idea but expressed as a shorter name

How Interactive

pop-up
4 3.7
picture book
  • Baby Talk
16 1.0

Surface Forms

pop-up singular
pop-ups plural

Morphology

pop-up = pop (transparent) = up + pop

The sense is built directly from the phrasal idea of something popping up, so the three-dimensional structures rising when opened are easy to interpret. [Postprocessing: moved 'up' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

The word pop-up comes from pop ('a short, sudden sound or action') and up ('to rise' or 'appear'). A pop-up book is named because parts of the page 'pop up' and stand up from the page when you open it, so the pictures feel like they come alive.