Pop

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

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.

Pop (plural Pops)

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

Shortened from popular (concert).

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.

From pop (“father”).

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); […]

• OPP, Opp, PPO, opp, opp.

From pop (“priest”).

Pop m (definite Popi)

1. a male given name

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Pop m anim (female equivalent Popová)

1. a male surname

• “Pop”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)
• Moldanová, Dobrava (2019) Naše příjmení [Our surnames] (in Czech), 5th edition, Prague: Agentura Pankrác, →ISBN, page 146

Borrowed from English pop.

• IPA^(key): /pɔp/

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• Rhymes: -ɔp
• Homophone: popp

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

1. pop music

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

Pop m (plural Popen)

1. pope

From popă.

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Pop m (genitive/dative lui Pop)

1. a surname