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Definition of Pop the question
1. Verb. Ask (someone) to marry you. "The old bachelor finally declared himself to the young woman"
Definition of Pop the question
1. Verb. (idiomatic intransitive) to propose marriage. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pop The Question
Literary usage of Pop the question
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)
"To Bachelors and Widowers : If you are about to pop the question, think of Breach
of Promise at Nisi Prius, and don't. He who POPS and does not wed, ..."
2. The American Joe Miller: A Collection of Yankee Wit and Humour by Joe Miller (1865)
"TH E latest way to pop the question is to ask a fair lady if you can have the
pleasure of seeing her to the minister's. A GREAT TRAVELLER. 410. ..."
3. Dr. Chase's Family Physician, Farrier, Bee-keeper, and Second Receipt Book by Alvin Wood Chase (1874)
"If this is properly done, it will "pop the question" pretty loud in a clay or two.
... pop the question."
4. The Metropolitan (1833)
"Methought I had ventured to " pop the question " to my Dulcinea, and was accepted.
... Yes," I cried, " I will pop the question: ere this nightcap again ..."
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