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Definition: POPPED |
POPPEDImperative & past participle1. Of Pop |
Date "POPPED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Crosswords: POPPED |
| English words defined with "POPPED": burst out ♦ Corn ball ♦ offer ♦ pop in, pop out, pop the question, propose. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "POPPED": POPCORN-CANDY MAKER ♦ Stone Soup. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | His eyes are popped. And he drools most of the time (To Kill a Mockingbird; writing credit: Harper Lee; Horton Foote) Then the waiter spilled water down my back, and my boob popped out. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) When Jaws popped out of the water (Mallrats; writing credit: Kevin Smith) Lady, you wouldn't know a criminal if it popped out of the toilet and bit you on the ass. (Year of the Dragon; writing credit: Michael Cimino and Oliver Stone.) Let's set the facts straight. First off, there was no raping; very little pillaging and Frau Blucher popped all the eyeballs (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin) | |
Lyrics | But get popped like a pimple, so call me Clearasil (Keep Their Headz Ringin; performing artist: Dr. Dre) | |
Clever | My "check engine" light came on the other day. I popped the hood, and looked, the engine is STILL there! Silly light. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | He Popped His Pistol (1953) Crashed Out Popped In (1999) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | (2) color slides show three or four popped corn kernels. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |  | Too late the rime popped in his head : be mine! he sang -- but Spring had fled. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Two men standing on sidewalk, with man at right having popped his buttons and wearing a ribbon marked "12 lbs.". Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Palm Horizon" by Mike Mays Commentary: "This idea popped into my head...have fun." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | They popped down the mountain, twisting and looping, losing the valley sometimes, and then finding it again |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | I remember the Center for Science and the Public Interest put out this silly notion that popcorn popped in coconut oil was bad and was going to kill you. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "POPPED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 77.10% of the time. "POPPED" is used about 428 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 77.1% | 330 | 15,812 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 22.43% | 96 | 33,456 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.47% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 428 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "POPPED": pop-popped. | |
Containing "POPPED": i-am-not-really-dead-but-just-popped-out-for-a-packet-of-fags. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "POPPED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 流行 (modish, Popping, Prevalence, Prevalent). (various references) | |
Danish | puf-ris (popped rice, puffed rice corn), pop-ris (popped rice, puffed rice corn), krokant med puf-ris (popped rice brittle, puffed rice crunch). (various references) | |
Dutch | gepofte-rijstnoga (popped rice brittle, puffed rice crunch), gepofte rijstkorrel (popped rice, puffed rice corn). (various references) | |
French | pralin au riz soufflé croquant (popped rice brittle), grain de riz soufflé (popped rice). (various references) | |
German | weggesteckt. (various references) | |
Greek | πραλίνα με ρύζι κροκάν (popped rice brittle, puffed rice crunch), πραλίνα με ρύζι τραγανιστό (popped rice brittle, puffed rice crunch), φουσκωτός τραγανιστός κόκκος ρυζιού (popped rice, puffed rice corn), τα τίναξε (he kicked the bucket, he popped his clogs). (various references) | |
Italian | croccante al riso soffiato (popped rice brittle, puffed rice crunch), chicco di riso soffiato (popped rice, puffed rice corn). (various references) | |
Korean | 터지는. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oppedpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pralina de arroz tufado (popped rice brittle, puffed rice crunch), grão de arroz tufado (popped rice, puffed rice corn). (various references) | |
Russian | выталкивать (detrude, extrude, pop, pushed, throw out, thrust forth). (various references) | |
Spanish | guirlache con arroz hinchado (popped rice brittle, puffed rice crunch), grano de arroz hinchado (popped rice, puffed rice corn), crocante con arroz hinchado (popped rice brittle, puffed rice crunch). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | вирячений (bulging, goggle). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "POPPED": joypopped. (additional references) | |
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"POPPED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fopped, opped, Oppede, oppida, Oppido, Papudo, poopet, Popek, Popel, popex, Poppaea, Poppe, Poppel, poppett, poppi, Poppo, popt, pupid. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "POPPED" (pronounced pÄ"pt) |
| 3 | -Ä" p t | adopt, chopped, copped, cropped, dropped, flopped, hopped, lopped, mopped, opt, plopped, propped, shopped, stopped, swapped, topped. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-o-p-p-p" | |
-2 letters: dope, oped, pepo, pope. | |
-3 letters: doe, ode, ope, ped, pep, pod, pop. | |
-4 letters: de, do, ed, od, oe, op, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-o-p-p-p" | |
+1 letter: plopped, poppied, poppled, propped. | |
+3 letters: joypopped, poppyhead, uppropped. | |
+4 letters: poppyheads. | |
+5 letters: paradropped, photomapped, polypeptide, preapproved, presupposed. | |
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