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Pop may refer to:

 

An onomatopoeic description of a sudden sharp explosion, usually of relatively small magnitude

A carbonated soft drink

Meanings either directly or indirectly derived from the word 'popular', including:-

Pop culture, the vernacular culture that prevails in any given society

Pop music, a subgenre of popular music

Pop art, a visual artistic movement that emerged in the late 1950s

Pop icon, a popular celebrity

Pop (album), a 1997 album by U2

Pop, the Eton Society, a self-selecting group whose members act, in effect, as prefects of the noted public school and as such are the recipients of numerous privileges

Pop (frozen snack), a snack on a stick or in a plastic or cardboard sleeve made from fruit juice or sugared water

Lollipop, a type of candy

Popcorn, a type of maize which puffs up when it is heated in oil or by dry heat

Pop, a synonym for a roll

Snap, Crackle and Pop, the three animated mascots of Rice Krispies cereal

Pop (television channel), a free-to-air children's television channel in the UK

POP TV, a popular Slovenian television channel.

A computer program instruction, see stack (data structure)

Criticise, British colloquial usage ("having a pop")

"popping the cherry" refers to a person (usually a young girl) losing her virginity, where cherry is a slang term for hymen

Pop may also be used as a name:

 

a colloquial term for 'father'

the name of the first month of Haab, the Mayan solar calendar

the name of a character in Happy Tree Friends

the name of a character in Ojamajo Doremi; also known as Poppu/Bibi

Iggy Pop, American punk rock singer and occasional actor

Meanings of POP and PoP:

 

Pacific Ocean Park, a short-lived California amusement park

Persistent Organic Pollutant, a class of chemicals

Planes of Power, an expansion pack to the MMORPG, EverQuest

Point of presence, the physical connection between telecommunications networks

Point of Purchase, a term in retail marketing

Population, a collection of people in sociology and biology

Post Office Protocol, an email protocol

PowerPC Open Platform, a free computer hardware reference design

Prince of Persia, a video game series

Probability of precipitation, a meteorological index that measures the probability of rain, snow, and other precipitation

Progesterone only pill, an oral female contraceptive

POP, x86 instruction

POP, a stack operation in computer science

POP-1, POP-2, POP-11 are computer languages peculiar to the Emerald Isle

Problem-oriented policing, a method of policing which relies on the identification and elimination of recurrent problems in a community

POP TV, a major Slovenian television network.

POP3, Post Office Protocol version 3, an internet e-mail protocol

 

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