pop

A loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle, especially when the contents are pressurized by fizziness.

Listen to the pop of a champagne cork.

An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.

Lunch was sandwiches and a bottle of pop.

You have not taken anything off "pop" yet, and "pop" is the working-class drink. For the working-classes it is "pop" and cockles, just as with the upper classes it is champagne and oysters.

A bottle, can, or serving of effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; a soda pop.

Go in the store and buy us three pops.

A pop shot: a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm.

The man with the gun took a pop at the rabbit.

A quantity dispensed; a portion; apiece.

They cost 50 pence a pop.

British rockers Radiohead solved the "music is dead" dispute last year by allowing fans to name a price for the group's new album, In Rainbows. (More than a million albums sold in the first week alone, at an average $8 a pop).

To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound.

The muskets popped away on all sides.

To burst (something) with a popping sound.

The boy with the pin popped the balloon.

This corn pops well.

To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart.

A rabbit popped out of the hole.

He that hath . . ./ Popp'd in between the election and my hopes.

To place (something) (somewhere); to move or position (something) with a short movement.

Just pop it in the fridge for now.

He popped his head around the door.

To make a short trip or visit.

I'm just popping round to the newsagent.

I'll pop by your place later today.

A loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle.

Pop, would go one of the eight-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech - and nothing happened.

So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged and then he scrooged again and scrabbled and scratched and scraped, working busily with his little paws and muttering to himself, 'Up we go! Up we go!' till at last, pop! his snout came out into the sunlight, and he found himself rolling in the warm grass of a great meadow.