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Definition of Pop out

1. Verb. Appear suddenly. "Spring popped up everywhere in the valley"

2. Verb. Bulge outward. "His eyes popped"

3. Verb. Exit briefly. "He popped out for a quick coffee break"

4. Verb. Come out suddenly or forcefully. "You stick a bill in the vending machine and the change pops out"

Definition of Pop out

1. Verb. To leave a room or building with the expectation of returning soon. ¹

2. Verb. (baseball softball) To be retired after three strikes, including a popouts (pop fly) on the third strike. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pop Out

pop bottle pop culture pop eyed pop feminism pop fly pop group pop groups pop gun pop guns pop in

pop music pop musician pop musicians pop off pop one's clogs pop out (current term) pop psych pop punk pop quiz pop quizzes

pop rivet pop rivets pop rock pop shield pop shields pop shop pop shot pop shove-it pop sock pop socks

Literary usage of Pop out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"pop out THE QUESTION which he had not the courage to put, 1764. ... When company comes you art not to pop out and stare, and then run in again. 1773. ..."

2. Dizionario delle lingue italiana ed ingleseby Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti by Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti (1807)
"—To pop out, uscire, ... To pop out a t."cj; r/, lasciar andaré una parola.— Jfe popped out a word that spoiled all, ..."

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