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To ask someone to marry one. I'm planning on popping the question just before the fireworks start. He popped the question in a text message? That's the worst proposal I've ever heard of.See also: pop, question

pop the question

[for a man] to ask a woman to marry him. (Could also be used by a woman asking a man.) She waited for years for him to pop the question. Finally she popped the question.See also: pop, question

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Propose marriage, as in He picked Valentine's Day to pop the question. [Early 1700s] See also: pop, question

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INFORMALIf you pop the question, you ask someone to marry you. Stuart got serious quickly and popped the question six months later.See also: pop, question

pop the question

propose marriage. British informalSee also: pop, question

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(informal) ask somebody to marry you: Where were you when he popped the question?See also: pop, question

pop the question

tv. [for a man] to ask a woman to marry him. (Could also be used by a woman asking a man.) She waited for years for him to pop the question. See also: pop, question

pop the question

Informal To propose marriage.See also: pop, question

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To propose marriage. The transfer of pop, meaning “to explode,” to the idea of blurting out a proposal, seems like a slangy modernism but actually dates from the eighteenth century. Samuel Richardson used it in his novel Sir Charles Grandison (1753): “Afraid he would now, and now and now, pop the question; which he had not the courage to put.”See also: pop