单词 | pop |
释义 | pop I. transitive verb 1. a. < popped him on the jaw and knocked him cold > b. c. 2. < popping questions to his class > < popping the berry into her mouth — Virginia Woolf > < couldn't go out without popping my head round the door — Fred Majdalany > 3. < the corn is popped — Jane Nickerson > < popped his gum twice — Jean Stafford > 4. < went into the woods hoping to pop a rabbit or two > 5. Britain intransitive verb 1. a. < popped around the corner of the house and confronted me — C.B.Kelland > < popped into his head out of the blue — John Kobler > b. < the private looked up startled, then popped to … attention — James Jones > 2. 3. < eyes popping with amazement > < eyes were on the point of popping out of his head — T.B.Costain > 4. < pop at a target > < pop at a bird > 5. 6. a. < popped to left field > — often used with up or out b. cricket, of a bowled ball 7. • - pop the question II. 1. a. dialect chiefly England b. 2. a. < the faint pop of buttons being undone — Gordon Merrick > < the cork flew off with a pop > b. 3. a. (1) < when he took a pop at you, he was playing for keeps with your life — Theodore Draper > (2) < the lad got the pistol … and the old man fearing he might do other mischief took the pop away from him — D.D.Martin > b. < about to take another pop at matrimony — P.G.Wodehouse > 4. 5. a. b. 6. < picnics were held with free pop and hamburgers — D.L.Cohn > 7. a. dialect England b. Louisiana 8. III. < I don't know why suddenly everything should go pop > — often used interjectionally IV. V. VI. 1. pops plural but usually singular in construction < went to hear the Boston Pops > 2. VII. also pops < become a singer of pop tunes — Morroe Berger > VIII. 1. 2. IX. • - a pop X. 1. < he pops vitamins … the way some cowboys gobble jelly beans — P.A.Witteman > 2. slang 3. < popped a rambunctious wheelie for two blocks — Robert Cullen > 4. < pop a cold beer > 5. < pops an open jump shot > intransitive verb < the house pops for every third beer — Studs Terkel > XI. 1. < pop fiction > especially < pop psychology > 2. XII. 1. 2. sometimes capitalized 3. |
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