🚗 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

to pop

47 8.6

To take a pill or medicine quickly

verb
/pɑp/

NSFW

: tomar

I rattled the amber bottle, popped the top, and dry-swallowed the pill.
pop a pill
pop a painkiller
pop a Tylenol

So suddenly they start popping nootropics.

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Examples

Johnny Starr grabbed a handful of mints, popped one into his mouth as he stepped out of the shadows.

Fiction book (1996)
Pop a worm pill, and hit the road, I'm busy.

Garfield (2004)
- Yeah, you pop a pill or something before we got here?

White Terror (2020)
You get tense because you pop speed like candy.

Igby Goes Down (2002)
I learned how to use drugs, smoke drugs, snort drugs, drink too much, pop pills, fine pills.
Todd has to pop a Xanax when he loses a contact lens.

That's My Boy (2012)
Before the party, she decided to pop a few painkillers for her headache.
If you're feeling anxious, you might want to pop a few calming pills.
He chose to pop an over-the-counter antihistamine to relieve his allergy symptoms.

Synonyms

to drop

vsto pop

NSFW

55 9.5

To take LSD, a drug that changes how you think and see

is a general action of taking pills by mouth quickly or casually

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

Phrasal Verbs

to pop up

144 3.5

Appear suddenly and briefly when you are not expecting it

to pop in

Informal

25 3.4

To make a short informal visit to a place

to pop out

21 3.1

To come out quickly from a surface or container

to pop out

20 2.9

To appear suddenly without warning

to pop out

Informal

16 3.2

To leave a place for a short time to do something

to pop the question

13 4.6

To ask someone to marry you

to pop into

Informal

13 3.9

A thought or memory comes into your mind suddenly and briefly

to pop into

Informal

9 4.1

Visit a place for a short time, often without planning

to pop off

Informal

1 8.1

To suddenly say something angry without warning

to pop out

Specialized

1 5.1

To move a window or panel out of the main program into a separate window

to pop a mint

Informal

1 3.4

To put a mint in your mouth to make your breath smell fresh

to pop off

1 7.9

To leave a place quickly, often without saying goodbye

to pop off

Informal

1 9.1

To die, often said as a joke to make it seem less serious

to pop bubble-wrap

Informal

1 2.7

Burst the small air bubbles in plastic wrap for fun or to feel calm

to pop off

Slang

1 8.4

To suddenly perform very well, often in games or music

to skin pop

NSFW

1 9.9

To put drugs under the skin instead of into a vein

to pop the lid back

Informal

4.4

To put the lid back on a jar or container quickly

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

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

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

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 Informal

to pop

NSFW

47 8.6

to take

∞ 1.0

to administer

Formal

130 4.8

Surface Forms

pop infinitive

popped past

popped past participle

popping present participle

pops third person singular

Etymology

Pop meaning to take a pill is a helpful phrase that comes from the quick, small action of putting a pill in your mouth — like you 'pop' it in. So to pop a pill is to take it quickly.