pop-comb. form

1857 C. C. Jones Let. 2 Jan. in R. M. Myers Children of Pride (1972) 290 I..‘went the rounds’, accomplishing in the space of some five hours and a half forty or fifty ‘pop calls’.

1941 W. C. Handy Father of Blues iii. 27 The pop-calls of policemen dropping in to catch vagrants.

2000 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 9 Feb. 2 c Absolutely no press conferences... And no presidential pop calls to the PTA.

1919 J. Joyce Ulysses xi. [Sirens] in Little Rev. Aug. 49 Pat paid for diner's popcorked bottle: and over tumbler tray and popcorked bottle ere he went he whispered.

1878 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Pop Dock, Digitalis purpurea.—Cornw[all]..from the habit of children to inflate and burst the flower.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Pops, the common fox-glove. Digitalis purpurea. Sometimes called pop-dock.

1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Pop-glove, the foxglove. Cornw[all].

1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 44/1 Pop-dock, Pop-glove, Poppy, the flower of the fox-glove.

1878 R. Jefferies Gamekeeper at Home vi. 116 ‘Blind’ holes and ‘pop’ holes (i.e. those which end in undisturbed soil, and those which are simply bored from one side of the bank to the other, being used only for temporary concealment).

1941 E. B. White in Harper's Mag. Aug. 332/2 In the brooder house the young cockerels were assembling in a corner, so I took a bamboo pole and rattled it and they quickly found the roosts. Then I closed the pophole.

1944 Living off Land: Man. Bushcraft ii. 30 Kangaroos, often hard to shoot, are fairly easy to snare in country where there are netting fences, as often their pads run alongside the fence to a spot where they either jump it or crawl through a ‘pop-hole’.

1992 Times 11 Feb. 3/2 If birds are outside, they will all rush for the hen house and some get crushed to death as they try to squeeze through the popholes.

1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night sig. Gij Fellowes they were that had good big pop mouths to crie Port a helme Saint George.

1876 Rep. Commissioners U.S. Internat. Exhib. Vienna 1873 I. 413 Ashcroft's patent nickel-seat pop safety valve.

1961 F. A. S. Brown Nigel Gresley xvii. 123 One of the new ‘B12s’..was the subject of extensive rebuilding, and the opportunity was taken to mount..a round-topped fire-box with pop safety valves.

2002 Heating/Piping/Air Conditioning Engin. (Nexis) 74 56 There will be..a pressure increase as the system warms up, probably enough to cause discharge from the pop-safety valve.

1845 P. Hawker Diary 13 Mar. (1893) II. 258 The birds..had not the power to mount up for 500 feet above ground as usual in order to avoid the popshooters.

1873 Buyers' Guide & Mechanics' Man. 266 (advt.) Prescott & Kalkman's patent safety pop valve.

1927 E. L. Ahrons Brit. Steam Railway Locomotive xxiii. 364/2 Ramsbottom safety valves, though still used, are rapidly giving place to pop valves of the Ross pattern.

1985 Internat. Jrnl. Heat & Fluid Flow 6 279 The model has shown satisfactory agreement with experimental data from a..pop valve operating in air.

1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 161 Pops; Lat. Alkekengi Indicum majus. This Plant hath..thin bluish capsular Pods, which inclose a round..Fruit of about the Bigness of a small Cherry... There is another Plant, which bears the same kind of Fruit..being a creeping scandent Plant... This is called the Pop-Vine, and grows in most Parts of the Island.

1848 R. H. Schomburgk Hist. Barbados 610 Physalis barbadensis, Jacq. Pop Vine, Hughes. Horse Pop. Physalis angulata, Linn. Pops, Hughes. Cow Pop.

1887 Amer. Naturalist 21 54 Physalis barbadensis Jacq. This species is said by Vilmorin to be sometimes cultivated in France. According to Maycock it is the Pop-vine of Hughes.