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ˌginger-ˈpop
[f. ginger + pop n.1]
1. A colloquial term for ginger-beer 1.
1827Blackw. Mag. XXI. 829 Sauterne, swizzle, imperial, ginger-pop, soda-water, or lemonade. 1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour ix. (1893) 44 Champagne, which went ‘pop, pop, popping—and bang, bang, banging’, just as ginger-pop goes between the acts on a hot night at a theatre. 1882Society 11 Nov. 22/2 Let..the toasts be drunk in filtered water, or, at most, ‘ginger-pop’.
Comb.1859Cornwallis New World I. 5, Two ginger-pop looking fountains playing with a most sickly effort.
2. slang. A policeman.
1887‘Dagonet’ in Referee 6 Nov. 7/3 Ere her bull-dog I could stop, She had called a ‘ginger-pop’. |