<span class="searchmatch">popped</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">question</span> simple past and past participle of <span class="searchmatch">pop</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">question</span>...
participle popping the question, simple past and past participle <span class="searchmatch">popped</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">question</span>) (idiomatic, informal) To propose marriage. 1846, Herman Melville...
<span class="searchmatch">popping</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">question</span> present participle and gerund of <span class="searchmatch">pop</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">question</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">pops</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">question</span> third-person singular simple present indicative of <span class="searchmatch">pop</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">question</span>...
informal) To make an appeal to the umpire against the batsman. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: to ask a given <span class="searchmatch">question</span>. <span class="searchmatch">pop</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">question</span>...
no <span class="searchmatch">question</span> no <span class="searchmatch">questions</span> asked open-ended <span class="searchmatch">question</span> open <span class="searchmatch">question</span> out of <span class="searchmatch">question</span> out of <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">question</span> polar <span class="searchmatch">question</span> Polish <span class="searchmatch">Question</span> <span class="searchmatch">pop</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">question</span> previous...
present <span class="searchmatch">pops</span>, present participle <span class="searchmatch">popping</span>, simple past and past participle <span class="searchmatch">popped</span>) (intransitive) To make a <span class="searchmatch">pop</span>, or sharp, quick sound. <span class="searchmatch">The</span> muskets <span class="searchmatch">popped</span> away...
one's spouse. [with to ‘someone’] Synonyms: propose, (colloquial) <span class="searchmatch">pop</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">question</span> will you marry me ask for someone's hand in marriage “propose marriage”...
out as an elegantly descriptive coinage. The bedroom in <span class="searchmatch">question</span> refers not to <span class="searchmatch">the</span> content of <span class="searchmatch">the</span> songs but to where they’re produced. These are solo projects...
undo <span class="searchmatch">the</span> asking of (a <span class="searchmatch">question</span>). 1999, John le Carré, Single & Single: Oliver's <span class="searchmatch">question</span> <span class="searchmatch">pops</span> out of him unbidden. Neither <span class="searchmatch">the</span> surly tone nor <span class="searchmatch">the</span> aggressive...