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Definition of Pop
Pop
A small, sharp, quick explosive sound or report; as, to go off with a pop.

An unintoxicating beverage which expels the cork with a pop from the bottle containing it; as, ginger pop; lemon pop, etc.

The European redwing.

To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound; as, the muskets popped away on all sides.

To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart; -- with in, out, upon, off, etc.

To burst open with a pop, when heated over a fire; as, this corn pops well.

To thrust or push suddenly; to offer suddenly; to bring suddenly and unexpectedly to notice; as, to pop one's head in at the door.

To cause to pop; to cause to burst open by heat, as grains of Indian corn; as, to pop corn or chestnuts.

Like a pop; suddenly; unexpectedly.


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Pop Quotations
Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.
Andy Warhol

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
Jackie Robinson

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.
Richard Branson

Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.
Lady Gaga

Pop stars should not eat.
Lady Gaga

In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there.
Billy Bragg

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
Steven Morrissey


I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.
Thom Yorke

We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.
Roger Daltrey

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.
Twyla Tharp

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
Billie Holiday

I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.
Edward de Bono

An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.
Robbie Williams

Some cats, Iggy Pop, they're going to always have that hunger.
Nikki Sixx

It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.
Regina Spektor

Then I went through a whole bunch of crap with my lousy movies and pop records. I had people behind me kind of steering me in that direction, but it wasn't really my bag.
Pia Zadora

Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.
Christina Aguilera

Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.
Christina Aguilera

Actually, I find it embarrassing being a pop star. I prefer it when people just treat me like anybody else, although occasionally there is a side of me, which is indulgent and I expect certain things because of my position. It's one of the perks.
Michael Hutchence

Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.
Michael Hutchence

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
Roy Lichtenstein

There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.
Gabriela Sabatini

I do like Britney Spears. I think she's cute. I think she's fun. And I like her records. You know, I'm not a pop snob whatsoever. I think she makes great pop records.
Elton John

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.
Simon Cowell

If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.
Iggy Pop

I don't think HBO would want to do anything in conjunction with Sub Pop but I never asked either.
David Cross

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.
Barry Gibb

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
Barry Gibb

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.
David Bowie

Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.
Michael Stipe

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Pop Translations
pop in German is Pop, hervorholen
pop in Spanish is estallido






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