Pop

See also: pop, PoP, POP, and pöp

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɒp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pɑp/
• Rhymes: -ɒp, -ɑp
• Homophone: pop

Etymology 1

Uncertain. The OED suggests either from (lolli)pop ("because the meetings were held in the rooms of Mrs Hatton, who kept the lollipop shop"), or from Latin popīna (“cookshop”). The second sense derives from the first.

Noun

Pop (plural Pops)

1. A social club and debating society at Eton College.
2. The body of college prefects.

Etymology 2

Shortened from popular (concert).

Noun

Pop (plural Pops)

1. (also in plural) A popular classical music concert.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, “Chapter 5”, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:

     As to the tall, curly-haired man, I suppose it was the one who was with me at the last Pop.

Etymology 3

From pop (“father”).

Proper noun

Pop

1. (colloquial, US, theater) Traditional nickname for a stage doorman.
   • 1982, Jhan Robbins, Front Page Marriage, page 186:

     “All the other stars would leave the theatre wearing fur coats, fancy hats, and imported French shoes,” said Pop Stern, a longtime stage-doorman.

   • 1999, Amy Dunkleberger, Patricia King Hanson, AFI Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, page 216:

     […] George Melford (Pop, stage doorman) […]

   • 2020, Edwin M. Bradley, Hollywood Musicals You Missed, page 65:

     […] Ralph Sanford (doorman); A.S. “Pop” Byron (stage doorman); Allen Fox (photographer); […]

Anagrams

• OPP, Opp, PPO, opp, opp.

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English pop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔp/

• Audio

  (file)

• Homophone: popp

Noun

Pop m (strong, genitive Pops or Pop, no plural)

1. pop music

Declension

Declension of Pop [sg-only, masculine, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Pop
genitive	eines	des	Pops, Pop
dative	einem	dem	Pop
accusative	einen	den	Pop

Further reading

• “Pop” in Duden online
• “Pop” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Plautdietsch

Noun

Pop m (plural Popen)

1. pope

Romanian

Etymology

From popă.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Pop m (genitive/dative lui Pop)

1. a surname