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🚗 To open quickly 🎵 Popular music 👨 A father 💥 A sharp sound 💥 To make a sound 🎈 To burst 🥤 A soft drink 💊 To take medicine 👊 To hit lightly 🍺 To drink quickly 🕺 For young people ⚾ To hit high ⚡ Suddenly
pop

pop

127 1.0
A sweet fizzy drink sold in cans or bottles
  • noun
  • /pɑp/
  • US
translation icon : refresco
  • Afterwards, one juror declared, " If we hadn't stopped to drink pop... it wouldn't have taken that long."
  • soda pop
  • a bottle of pop
  • pop cap

Examples

  • You know I don't drink pop, Ma.

    Buffalo '66 (1998)

  • ...you want a pop or something?

    Now and Then (1995)

  • And walk three miles to get a pop at the corner store.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • "I have coffee here, but if you prefer soda pop, I can go back and get it.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • Later, he wrote down the soda pop orders, the balance of debts, and the customers' addresses.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • The soda pop test requires the participants to turn soda pop cans over and place them in a specified location.

    Academic text (2006)

  • Daddy offered us orange soda pops from A.J. Harris's, but we declined.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Don't drink too much coffee or soda pop, smoke tobacco, or nervously eat snacks in the teacher's room.

    Academic text (1991)

  • Burl ordered soda pop, and his father sipped a bourbon called Ancient Age.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • Can I get a pop with my sandwich?

Synonyms

soda
vspop
  • US
426 1.0

A sweet fizzy drink often served cold

is the regional alternative word used in some areas
soft drink
vspop
40 1.0

A drink without alcohol that has bubbles, like soda or lemonade

is a specific sweet carbonated beverage rather than any nonalcoholic drink
soda pop
vspop
  • US
15 1.0

A sweet fizzy drink like cola

is the common one word name for that beverage
cream soda
vspop
6 1.5

A sweet, fizzy drink with vanilla that is usually light in color

is the general sweet carbonated drink type, not only vanilla flavored
tonic
vspop
  • US
2 8.1

A sweet fizzy drink people call soda in New England

is the general term used outside that regional usage
fizzy drink
vspop
  • UK
1 1.0

A cold sweet drink with bubbles like cola

focuses more on sweetness and flavored bottled or canned form
ginger pop
vspop
  • UK
7.7

A sweet fizzy drink flavored with ginger, like ginger ale

is the broader flavored category not limited to ginger

Idioms

to pop someone's cherry
  • Offensive
1 9.9

To have sex with someone for the first time

to pop the cherry
  • Offensive
9.9

To do something for the first time, often used informally about a person's first time having sex

snap, crackle and pop
6.5

Short sharp crackling sounds like cereal in a bowl

Compounds

pop music
36 1.0

Songs with a catchy tune that many people like

pop tart
20 2.7

A thin sweet pastry with a fruit or chocolate filling that you heat in a toaster

pop quiz
19 3.4

A short surprise test that checks what students learned recently

soda pop
  • US
15 1.0

A sweet fizzy drink like cola

pop-up
  • Texting
8 3.8

A shop that opens in one place for a short time

pop-up
7 3.4

A small window that suddenly appears on your computer screen

pop-up
4 3.7

A book with pages that fold up into small paper scenes

Pop Art
4 4.4

An art style that uses images from advertising and comics

pop fly
  • Jargon
3 5.8

A high ball hit in baseball or softball that is easy to catch

pop group
3 2.3

A group of singers or musicians who play popular songs

pop-up book
3 2.5

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

pop bottle
  • US
2 1.1

A bottle that holds fizzy soft drinks like cola

pop-up
  • Jargon
1 3.6

A high fly ball that is easy for fielders to catch

pop-up toaster
1 2.2

A small electric machine that heats bread slices and pushes them up when ready

corporation pop
  • Literature
7.7

Popular music made by big companies to sell well and often not very original

ginger pop
  • UK
7.7

A sweet fizzy drink flavored with ginger, like ginger ale

running pop
  • Specialized
9.9

A climbing tropical plant with thin divided leaf parts and stems that smell bad when crushed

pop feminism
  • Literature
6.4

A way people promote women's rights in popular culture like music and fashion

pop tent
3.8

A small, light tent that opens quickly and is easy to carry

pop-fly
  • Jargon
5.7

A ball hit high into the air near home plate that is easy to catch

How Fizzy

champagne
713 3.7
pop
  • US
127 1.0
still water
1 1.2

Surface Forms

pop singular
pops plural

Etymology

Pop for a soft drink comes from the noise you hear when you open a fizzy bottle or can and from the old phrase 'soda pop'. So calling a soda 'pop' remembers the fizzy opening sound.