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unpop en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + pop.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To unfasten (a snap fastener).
   • He sat the boy on his lap. And absently adjusted his clothes. In the boy's hand was a metal car. It was painted red. Leon reached down to his vest, unpopping the buttons that secured it beneath the nappy. 2008, Benjamin Parker, Leon Prilki, page 118:
   • The sorts of activities I present are buttoning, lacing, popping and unpopping press-studs, dressing and undressing dolls - although the latter is not usually perceived at all as symbolic or 'play' but a merely mechanical activity. 2003, Mair Rees, Drawing on Difference:
2. (transitive) To cause not to have popped.
   • You can't unpop a balloon.

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