soda pop
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- noun
- /ˈsoʊdə pɑp/
- US
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refresco
- At the party, everyone was drinking soda pop instead of alcohol.
- soda pop bottle
- drink soda pop
- orange soda pop
But water, soda pop, what else?
- But water, soda pop, what else?
- Want to sleep a lot when I get home, drink a soda pop.
- We got to this one point in, in this March route and suddenly I'm getting hit with bottles and soda pop cans and rocks and just debris from the street.
- No, like go get a chicken and a salad fatty and like the soda pops got to go.
Examples
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Would you like a soda pop with your meal?
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Cut out the afternoon candy bar and soda pop, and start drinking more water.
Blog text (17) -
- I want a soda pop.
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- Would you like a soda pop?
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I'll buy you a soda pop.
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How about a soda pop, Helen?
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I think I have some sort of soda pop in the refrigerator.
Fiction book (1993) -
Why don't you go buy yourself a soda pop?
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Daddy offered us orange soda pops from A.J. Harris's, but we declined.
Fiction book (1993) -
The nuns were always bringing me pleasant things to drink: fruit juices, cold soda pop, herbal teas.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
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A sweet fizzy drink often served cold
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A sweet fizzy drink sold in cans or bottles
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A drink without alcohol that has bubbles, like soda or lemonade
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A sweet fizzy drink people call soda in New England
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A cold sweet drink with bubbles like cola
How Fizzy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Both constituents 'soda' and 'pop' independently denote a sweet, carbonated soft drink, so their combination transparently refers to a carbonated beverage. The phrase is essentially compositional (redundant synonyms or regional variants) and thus immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows the two words.
Etymology
Soda pop may come from old fizzy drinks called soda or 'soda water', while pop imitates the quick sound bottles made when they were opened; the image of a bottle making a pop fits the name. That's why the phrase now means 'a sweet, fizzy soft drink'.