Crossword clues for popcorn
popcorn
- Filmgoer's purchase
- It may come in buckets
- Corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat
- Small kernels of corn exploded by heat
- Product sold by Paul Newman
- Movie-theater treat
- Movie fare
- Cinema snack
- Lemonade and cheese snack
- Popular trick involving Russia's foremost snack
- Theater fare
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Wiktionary
n. 1 (context chiefly uncountable English) A snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating. 2 (context knitting English) A kind of stitch similar to a bobble. vb. to stand up or jump up quickly
WordNet
n. corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat [syn: Zea mays everta]
small kernels of corn exploded by heat
Wikipedia
Popcorn is a type of corn that expands from the kernel and puffs up when heated. Popcorn is able to pop like amaranth grain, sorghum, quinoa, and millet. When heated, pressure builds within the kernel, and a small explosion (or "pop") is the end result. Some strains of corn are now cultivated specifically as popping corns.
There are various techniques for popping corn. Along with prepackaged popcorn, which is generally intended to be prepared in a microwave oven, there are small home appliances for popping corn. These methods require the use of minimally processed popping corn.
A larger-scale, commercial popcorn machine was invented by Charles Cretors in the late 19th century.
Unpopped popcorn is considered nonperishable and will last indefinitely if stored in ideal conditions.
Depending on how it is prepared and cooked, some consider popcorn to be a health food, while others caution against it for a variety of reasons. Popcorn can also have non-food applications, ranging from holiday decorations to packaging materials.
"Popcorn" is an early synthpop instrumental, composed by Gershon Kingsley in 1969 and first appearing on his album Music to Moog By.
The same year it was released and recorded at Audio Fidelity Records label in New York City. The title may refer to the short staccato or sharp "popping" sound used, or to pop music and its being 'corny', i.e., kitschy. The title is generally written as one word, although some single sleeves (such as the one illustrated) present it as two words, "Pop Corn".
In 1972, Hot Butter's rerecording was a huge hit in many countries. "Popcorn" has since been covered by a great number of artists.
Popcorn is a type of maize in which the kernels expand when heated.
Popcorn may also refer to:
Popcorn is a 1998 play by English author Ben Elton adapted from his novel of the same title.
Popcorn is a 1996 novel by the British writer Ben Elton. It shares themes with a number of movies from the mid-1990s, most notably Natural Born Killers by Oliver Stone and Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs by Quentin Tarantino. The play version of the novel is used by the IEB (Independent Education Board) In South Africa as one of their Postmodern set-work plays for Dramatic Arts.
Popcorn is a 2007 British teen comedy film written and directed by Darren Paul Fisher. It was filmed in 2005 at one of London's largest multiplex cinemas, Odeon Greenwich.
Popcorn is a 1991 American comedy horror film directed by Mark Herrier and written by Alan Ormsby.
PopCorn is a breakout clone by French developers Christophe Lacaze and Frédérick Raynal, released in 1988.
Popcorn is the eleventh studio album of the Japanese boy band Arashi. The album was released on October 31, 2012 under their record label J Storm in two editions: a first press/limited edition and a regular edition. Though both versions contains a single CD and the same track list, the first press edition features special packaging of 24P photo booklet Until The Popcorn Pops and bonus stickers. With more than 750,000 units sold, the album was certified for Triple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ).
Popcorn (sometimes Belgian popcorn or oldies popcorn) is a style of music and dancing first established in Belgium in the 1970s and 1980s. The style includes a wide variety of mostly American and British recordings of R&B and pop music made between the late 1950s and mid 1960s, often relatively obscure, and characterised by a slow or medium, rather than fast, tempo. The style has been described by musician and writer Bob Stanley as "possibly the last truly underground music scene in Europe".
Popcorn is a 1967 jazz album by vocalist Luiz Henrique and organist Walter Wanderley with band on Verve Records. The album features Luiz Henrique, guitar and vocals, Walter Wanderley, organ; Sivuca, accordion; Romeo Penque, flute, Affonso de Paula, percussion, with James Kappes, Gary Chester, or Donald MacDonald on drums.
Popcorn was an Italian pop music show which ran 1980-1985 on Canale 5 produced by Berlusconi's Fininvest. Hosts included Sammy Barbot, Tiziana Fiorveluti, Claudio Cecchetto, Augusto Martelli, Italy-based US singer Ronnie Jones and English actress Karina Huff.
Usage examples of "popcorn".
Meg said, dumping a box of microwave popcorn and a plastic bag of birdseed into the bottom of the grocery cart.
But it was hard not to feel, as Michael left the bedroom and returned with a box of microwavable popcorn upon which Paul Newman grinned iconographically, then spooned up against me while I decided whether or not popcorn was, indeed, what I wanted, that in certain critical matters, my body still worked.
Chief of Surgery Burgess, dying a slow, half-century death in this city where reading span is sorely stretched by the instructions on microwave popcorn, instantly imagines that in Kraft he has found a kindred literate spirit, a simile son.
Flossie and Lapp bounced around in back like a couple of starstruck adolescents, munching on popcorn and loudly sipping on a bottle of Southern Comfort as they giggled nonstop over private -- usually risque -- jokes.
Moscovitz came home and started yelling at us for letting Pavlov in their room and eating popcorn in their bed.
Dondi Snayheever could still get plenty of free popcorn at the Slots of Fun on the Strip.
As the hunter and struthio circled, a third clown rolled a popcorn cart into the ring.
The hunter stopped, bought a bag of popcorn, and began to eat as the struthio caught up.
We went to the movie this afternoon, and I had a jumbo box of popcorn and a supersized soda.
The noble fir on its stand in the corner had been strung with lights and popcorn, but it was still only partly decorated, and the box of ornaments that Bader had bought was on the floor nearby, opened and overturned, its contents --glass balls and brass snowflakes, wooden figures, china candy canes, silver icicles and paper stars--all spilled out in a jumble on the braided rug.
The schoolchildren came to Lake in the Clouds by special invitation on the night before the recital to practice their singing, and to make popcorn balls, sampling extensively as they went.
I duck from beneath the spastic neon of a porno parlour, spotlit and anonymous, and there she is, eating popcorn or chestnuts from a paper cone.
Gerhardt Schtitt and deLínt and their depressed prorectors had had to sit eating butterless popcorn through only one cartridge of one B.
Later, after he had gone to sleep, Mary Catherine curled up on the living room sofa with a bag of microwave popcorn, rewound "Election One," and watched it.
I've wondered from time to time if Tony and Ned's father ever really needed to talk about it - I mean on some late weekday evening when things at the barracks were at their slowest, guys cooping upstairs, other guys watching a movie on the VCR and eating microwave popcorn, just the two of them downstairs from all that, in Tony's office with the door shut.