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Pop en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /pɒp/ (UK)
  • /pɑp/ (US)

Etymology

Uncertain. The OED suggests either from (lolli)pop ("because the meetings were held in the rooms of Mrs Hatton, who kept the lollipop shop"), or from Latin popīna (“cookshop”). The second sense derives from the first.

Meanings

  1. A social club and debating society at Eton College.
  2. The body of college prefects.

Forms

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Source: en.wiktionary, “Pop” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Pop en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /pɒp/ (UK)
  • /pɑp/ (US)

Etymology

Shortened from popular (concert).

Meanings

  1. (also, plural) A popular classical music concert.
    • As to the tall, curly-haired man, I suppose it was the one who was with me at the last Pop. 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC:

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Source: en.wiktionary, “Pop” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Pop en · PROPN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • /pɒp/ (UK)
  • /pɑp/ (US)

Etymology

From pop (“father”).

Meanings

  1. (US, colloquial) Traditional nickname for a stage doorman.
    • “All the other stars would leave the theatre wearing fur coats, fancy hats, and imported French shoes,” said Pop Stern, a longtime stage-doorman. 1982, Jhan Robbins, Front Page Marriage, page 186:
    • […] Ralph Sanford (doorman); A.S. “Pop” Byron (stage doorman); Allen Fox (photographer); […] 2020, Edwin M. Bradley, Hollywood Musicals You Missed, page 65:
    • […] George Melford (Pop, stage doorman) […] 1999, Amy Dunkleberger, Patricia King Hanson, AFI Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, page 216: