Pop

A pop is an onomatopoeic description of the sound made by a quick, sharp explosion.

It is often used as a truncation of Popular; used alone it most commonly refers to:

• pop music, also called top 40 in the US
• pop art, an art movement of the 1960s and 1970s
• pop culture

Pop may also refer to the following:

As an abbreviation:

• Population
• Pop or Pops is colloquial name for a grandfather or an elderly man
• Point of presence (telecommunications)
• Persistent organic pollutant
• Probability of Precipitation calculated during Probabilistic forecasting

In media:

• Pop (album), an album by U2
• Pop (song), a song by 'N Sync
• Pop (television channel), a digital television channel in the UK
• POP TV, a Slovenian television network

In computing:

• Post Office Protocol, also called POP3
• Prince of Persia, a platform game
• Pop is a basic operation in a [[Stack (data structure)
• Pop, also know as Bubble, a chinese forum of political, cultural and leisure debates.

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In food:

• Carbonated soft drinks are sometimes called "pop" or "soda pop"
• Ice pop, such as a Popsicle. See also Pop (frozen snack)
• Lollipop