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Popsicle

Definition: Popsicle

Popsicle

Noun

1. Ice cream or water ice on a small wooden stick; "in England a popsicle is called an ice lolly".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Popsicle

Synonyms: ice lolly (n), lollipop (n), lolly (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Popsicle

English words defined with "popsicle": ice lollylollipop, lolly. (references)

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Modern Usage: Popsicle

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Negative, I am a meat popsicle. (The Fifth Element; writing credit: Luc Besson)

I'll shove that bat up your ass and turn you into a popsicle. (The Warriors; writing credit: Sol Yurick; David Shaber)

Try this on for sizeBlood drenched frozen tampon popsicle! (South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut; writing credit: Trey Parker; Matt Stone)

Movie/TV Titles

The Popsicle Parade of Stars (1950)

Lemon Popsicle 9: The Party Goes On (2001)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Popsicle

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Popsicle Journal (Harper Winslow Series, 4) (reference)

  • Art Appreciation for the Popsicle Generation (reference)

  • Chocolate days, popsicle weeks (reference)

  • Hokkaido Popsicle (reference)

  • Pins, Picks, and Popsicle Sticks: A Straight-Line Crafts Book (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Popsicle

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Non-Fiction Usage: Popsicle

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Freeze juice in an ice cube tray and eat it like a popsicle. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Popsicle

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

popsicle

360

pete popsicle

7

craft popsicle stick

124

clipart popsicle

7

popsicle recipe

83

bridge design popsicle stick

6

popsicle stick

64

craft popsicle project stick

6

bridge popsicle stick

26

make popsicle

6

popsicle mold

23

popsicle history

6

popsicle project stick

21

bird house popsicle stick

6

popsicle toe

16

popsicle image

6

house popsicle stick

15

banana popsicle

6

popsicle maker

15

craft idea popsicle stick

6

lemon popsicle

14

joke popsicle

5

craft popsicle

12

free popsicle sugar

5

homemade popsicle

12

craft popsicle stick using

5

popsicle picture

12

jello popsicle recipe

5

jello popsicle

10

orange popsicle

5

bridge popsicle

10

craft kid popsicle stick

5

art popsicle stick

10

5 picture popsicle

5

frame picture popsicle stick

9

boat popsicle stick

5

art clip popsicle

8

popsicle record rodent

4

building popsicle stick

7

5 popsicle

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Popsicle

Language Translations for "popsicle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

akullore me lëng frutash (sorbet). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

冰棍' (frozen sucker, ice-lolly, ice-sucker). (various references)

   

French

  

sucette glacée. (various references)

   

German

  

eis am stiel (lollipop). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

アーリア人 (art deco, art nouveau, Aryan, climbing irons, crampons, eye, eye shadow, eyeshade, frozen treat similar to a Popsicle, IACA, ice, ice candy, ice cream, ice cream soda, ice cube, ice dancing, ice hockey, ice pail, ice pick, ice rink, ice show, ice skating place, ice smack, ice tongs, icebox, icecream sundae, iced coffee, iced tea, icefall, Iceland, ice-skating, icetea, icing, icing the puck, icon, iconify, ILO, IMF, intelligence quotient, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Labor Organization, International Monetary Fund, ion, IQ, iron, iron club, measure of area, metal pins of climbing shoes, Rh, Rhesus factor, skating rink, to take the radius). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

アイスキャンデー (ice candy). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

opsiclepay

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sladoled na štapiću. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

isglass (water ice). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

buzlu şeker. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Popsicle

Derivations

Words beginning with "popsicle": popsicles. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Popsicle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pasikale. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Popsicle"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "popsicle" (pronounced pÄ"psikul)
5-s i k u lbicycle, classical, icicle, lexical, neoclassical, nonsensical, paradoxical, semiclassical, tricycle.
4-i k u lacoustical, alphabetical, analytical, antithetical, apolitical, archaeological, archeological, astrological, astronautical, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, biographical, biological, biomedical, biotechnological, botanical, categorical, cervical, chronological, comical, conical, critical, cubicle, cyclical, cylindrical, cynical, dermatological, diabolical, dialectical, ecclesiastical, ecological, economical, ecumenical, egotistical, electrical, electrochemical, electromechanical, elliptical, empirical, encyclical, epidemiological, eschatological, ethical, ethnical, evangelical, fanatical, galenical, geographical, geological, geometrical, geopolitical, graphical, gynecological, helical, heretical, historical, hypercritical, hypocritical, hysterical, identical, ideological, illogical, immunological, inimical, ironical, lackadaisical, liturgical, logical, logistical, lyrical, magical, mathematical, mechanical, metallurgical, metaphorical, metaphysical, methodological, metrical, morphological, musical, mystical, mythological, neurological, nonelectrical, nonpolitical, nonsurgical, nontechnical, ontological, optical, ornithological, pathological, pedagogical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, pharmacological, philosophical, phonological, physical, physiological, preclinical, problematical, prototypical, psychical, psychological, puritanical, rabbinical, radiological, rhetorical, sabbatical, semicylindrical, semitropical, serological, sociological, spherical, statistical, stereotypical, strategical, surgical, symmetrical, tactical, technical, technological, teleological, testicle, theatrical, theological, theoretical, topical, toxicological, tropical, typographical, tyrannical, umbilical, uncritical, uneconomical, unethical, untypical, vehicle, vertical, viatical, virological, whimsical, zoological.
3-k u laeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, article, barnacle, biblical, bifocal, biochemical, brickle, buckle, cackle, chemical, Chronicle, chuckle, circle, clavicle, clerical, clinical, commonsensical, coracle, cortical, crackle, cuticle, cycle, debacle, diacritical, domical, ducal, encircle, epochal, equivocal, etymological, farcical, fecal, fickle, fiscal, focal, follicle, freckle, geophysical, gonococcal, grackle, grammatical, granduncle, hackle, heckle, heterocercal, hierarchical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypothetical, impractical, jackal, knuckle, local, maniacal, matriarchal, medical, meikle, meteorological, methodical, Mickle, miracle, monocle, motorcycle, muckle, mythical, nautical, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, numerical, obstacle, Oracle, oratorical, particle, patriarchal, photochemical, pickle, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, practical, pumpernickel, quizzical, radical, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, recycle, ruckle, runkle, satirical, shackle, shekel, sickle, skeptical, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, sprinkle, stickle, suckle, tabernacle, tackle, tentacle, tickle, tinkle, trickle, twinkle, typical, uncle, unequivocal, unicycle, unshackle, vocal, Winkle, wrinkle.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Popsicle

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-o-p-p-s"

-1 letter: polices.

-2 letters: colies, copies, peplos, pilose, poleis, police, polies, popsie, splice.

-3 letters: ceils, clips, clops, close, coils, coles, copes, copse, cosie, epics, lopes, oleic, pepos, piles, pipes, pisco, plies, plops, poise, poles, polis, popes, scope, sepic, slice, slipe, slope, socle, solei, speil, spice, spiel, spile, spoil.

-4 letters: ceil, cels, ceps, clip, clop, coil, cole.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-o-p-p-s"
 

+1 letter: episcopal, popsicles.

 

+2 letters: pitchpoles, scaloppine.

 

+3 letters: episcopally, polariscope, scaloppines.

 

+4 letters: pilocarpines, polariscopes.

 

+5 letters: cephalosporin, glycopeptides, laparoscopies, perspicuously, postepileptic, preceptorials, precipitously, prospectively, psephological.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Popsicle


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 6F 70 73 69 63 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01101111 01110000 01110011 01101001 01100011 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#111 &#112 &#115 &#105 &#99 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006F 0070 0073 0069 0063 006C 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5081828575697871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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