pop visitn.
/ˈpɒp vɪzɪt/, U.S. /ˈpɑp ˌvɪzᵻt/ Chiefly U.S.
A quick or unexpected visit. Cf. pop v.1 3a.
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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).
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