The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pop \Pop\, v. t.
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To thrust or push suddenly; to offer suddenly; to bring suddenly and unexpectedly to notice; as, to pop one's head in at the door.
He popped a paper into his hand.
--Milton. To cause to pop; to cause to burst open by heat, as grains of Indian corn; as, to pop corn or chestnuts.
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To eat or swallow; -- of food, especially snacks, in small pieces; as, he popped a whole can of peanuts while watching the movie. To pop off,
to thrust away, or put off promptly; as, to pop one off with a denial.
--Locke.-
to make a statement, or series of statements, forcefully and in an opinionated manner; as, he popped off about his dislike of modern art.
To pop the question, to make an offer of marriage to a lady. [Colloq.]
--Dickens.
Usage examples of "to pop off".
He got his right hand free just in time to pop off a small girl who was coming at him from the right, but by then the woman had sunk her teeth in the fleshy part of his left hand just beneath the thumb.
At first Bashir ignored Garak's quipmGarak was always quipping, in fact Garak would go out of his way to pop off with lines when silence would do just fineMbut something about this last declaration had a glint of not being a joke.
She was nearly a head shorter than he was and twice as skinny, her knotted fists attached to sticklike balls of pollen ready to pop off and fly away.
I passed the sixth floor, gasping, thighs burning, knees feeling like my kneecaps were about to pop off.