单词 | pop visit |
释义 | pop visitn. Chiefly U.S. A quick or unexpected visit. Cf. pop v.1 3a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > visit > [noun] > short or casual look-in1653 vis1754 pop visit1767 drop-in1819 fly1833 pop call1857 pop-in visit1887 1767 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IX. xxxiii. 142 Obadiah had led his cow upon a pop-visit to him. 1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall (1823) II. 50 I have watched him, too, during one of his pop visits into the cottage. 1939 Appleton (Wisconsin) Post-Crescent 12 Oct. 8/4 Their usual procedure is to telephone the florist to send up flowers, pay a pop visit to the sufferer..and then, with a murmured ‘I'm no good in a sick-room’, go off about their affairs. 2003 News-Star (Monroe, Lousiana) (Nexis) 7 July 1 a ‘It doesn't matter where your child is,’ Takewell said. ‘Occasionally, you have to do pop visits.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1767 |
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