I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a pop melody (= one that is typical of a pop song )
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The album’s perfect pop melodies make it probably the best record this year.
a pop/folk song
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I love all those '60s pop songs.
a pop/rock star
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Who’s your favourite pop star?
a pop/rock/jazz group
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They’re one of the most exciting pop groups around at the moment.
a pop/rock/jazz/classical concert
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There were 150,000 people at the rock concert in Frankfurt.
a rock/pop/jazz/folk festival
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He's appeared at folk festivals all over Europe.
body popping
pop a pill informal (= take one too easily, without thinking about it seriously )
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Some people just pop a pill to get a good night's sleep.
pop art
pop culture
pop fly
pop group
pop idol
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a pop idol
pop music
pop psychology
pop quiz
pop star
pop/opera/folk etc singer
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her favourite pop singer
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a famous Italian opera singer
pop/rock/classical etc music
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Johnny Cash was one of country music’s greatest stars.
sb's ears pop (= the pressure in them changes suddenly, for example when you go up or down quickly in a plane )
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My ears finally popped when the plane landed.
soda pop
the pop charts
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Their new single went straight to number 1 in the pop charts.
vox pop
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
along
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Anyone who wishes to have their bike security marked should pop along between 10 a.m. and 12 noon.
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I said I'd pop along to see her.
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So if you want to have a look, just pop along .
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The assistant's suggestion that I pop along to Manolo Blahnik?
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It seems he and the Empress had to pop along to Harrods to be measured up for a new throne.
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When you've finished, why not pop along and join us?
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Why don't you pop along to the hospital one night and pay Len a visit?
back
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Pa's eyes close above the tips of his fingers then pop back open, catching me out.
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I look round as I reach a junction in the corridor and he quickly pops back into his office.
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Spend the morning doing some sightseeing, pop back to the ship for lunch and come in to see Timothy then?
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And then suddenly I pop back to life, clamber across Jenny's lap and open the window.
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Or were you just popping back to see you'd left Hatton neat and tidy?
down
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They should pop down to accounting or purchasing and introduce themselves to the people they deal with.
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With this icon highlighted, you can pop down the File menu and select Properties.
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So, if you're popping down a daily aspirin, keep the pop music down too.
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Thought I might pop down to Grafton again this spring - see if our Peg is still alive and kicking.
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So, he popped down to my office, stuck this demo on the turntable and it just blew my socks off.
in
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And then this brother lived next-door and his wife popped in and out.
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A secretary pops in to say that a lawyer insists on talking with Meagher immediately by phone.
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Glad you could find the time to pop in on a humble scribe.
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I heard you at it so I thought I'd pop in and pass the time of day.
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The manager, Peter Rose and his team are available on Oxford 742048, telephone or pop in at your leisure.
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But if you have a moment to spare before you do catch the bus, be sure to pop in .
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She's awfully good about popping in to see her.
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Now that I will be comparatively close to Salford, perhaps I can pop in and enjoy your activities.
just
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He's just popped out for supplies.
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The question had just popped right out of her mouth.
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Conversely, if the egg had just popped into existence and then exploded, what could explain this bizarre event?
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I wonder if I could just pop over.
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But the reason I have sat down so quickly is because the old man has just popped out on the northbound platform.
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So if you want to have a look, just pop along.
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Journalists just pop them a question and let them get on with it.
off
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And, darling, don't pop off , will you?
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You popped off the end caps and extended it.
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When I pop off , everything will come to you.
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After several long moments of ankle-straining effort, her left boot popped off and thudded to the floor.
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Volcanos will start popping off around the world throwing up tonnes of dust.
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His switch to off-cutters from a reduced run-up suddenly had the ball popping off the wicket and the bat.
out
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He's just popped out for supplies.
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It was her pretend street voice, thicker, her lips popping out .
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It was fun for the older men to watch Karl and Brad's eyes pop out as Mitti joined their table.
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So, at this writing, we see the cuckoo pop out again.
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Sometimes you may spot an occasional dorsal fin when it pops out like a miniature yacht sail.
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A tear popped out of one eye, or was it sleet that was still falling?
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The remark popped out at the end of an extended tour of Nicholson's pubs.
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Open a drawer and eight things come popping out .
over
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A horse or pony who will pop over a ditch without fuss is a great asset.
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I wonder if I could just pop over .
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Foinavon was lunged over jumps and popping over little schooling fences became a daily routine.
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So he has popped over to New York to do his Christmas shopping.
round
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I sort of noticed, Joe, how you've been absent since things started popping round here.
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They like to see people for a cup of tea, and they like popping round to Karen's for company.
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Next day the weather was fine so Maureen, with a 1235-X in tow, popped round to have a go.
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When Maureen came in I took the opportunity to pop round with it for him.
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My closest friend Natalie was having a day off so I popped round to sec her for a chat.
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Dealing with your children's friends who pop round in the evening calls for consummate diplomacy and the setting of time limits.
up
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Avoid any site that pops up a new window when you try to leave, or spawns multiple windows.
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It just keeps popping up , again and again.
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Hardly a week passes without his popping up in Washington for some top Republican strategy session on budget-balancing.
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And perhaps most interestingly, can MacLean stay away from the physical altercations that have popped up recently?
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Blue people began popping up all over the plateau.
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I thought I'd pop up with some.
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When my Eggos popped up , they were burned around the edges.
■ NOUN
champagne
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No sooner had the excitement died down in Coventry than champagne corks were popping at Courtaulds Fibres in Grimsby.
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At the NoS offices the champagne corks had been popping .
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The noises of men talking and laughing and the sound of champagne corks popping filter out into the corridor.
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And the champagne corks were popping as Kirkby's latest housing co-operative celebrated its success.
clog
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The only way a girl gets stuff is if her dad pops his clogs and leaves her a few bob.
cork
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In the harsher 1990s there will not be many corks popping at companies that fail to: Reduce costs.
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In the living room, a cork or two popped , releasing a stinging whistle of pressure into the air.
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Somewhere in the world a Moët et Chandon cork pops every second!
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No sooner had the excitement died down in Coventry than champagne corks were popping at Courtaulds Fibres in Grimsby.
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At the NoS offices the champagne corks had been popping .
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The noises of men talking and laughing and the sound of champagne corks popping filter out into the corridor.
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And the champagne corks were popping as Kirkby's latest housing co-operative celebrated its success.
day
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My closest friend Natalie was having a day off so I popped round to sec her for a chat.
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Just the other day a curious sight popped up on nearby Orange Boulevard where it crosses S.R. 46.
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Without Nick, they might as well sit around all day popping bubble-wrap.
existence
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Conversely, if the egg had just popped into existence and then exploded, what could explain this bizarre event?
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Suppose the basic laws of physics popped into existence for no reason at all.
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In between the universe expands, particles pop into existence , galaxies coalesce and stars burst into life.
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The reason for this was the bright point of light that had popped into existence a few feet from his eyes.
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They therefore proposed the idea of continuous creation whereby matter was constantly popping into existence .
eye
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His eyes had popped , but the sensors inside his skull fed him heat patterns that were clearer than any visual input.
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She let out a soft whelp as she closed her eyes then popped them open and stared mutely into the berries.
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It was fun for the older men to watch Karl and Brad's eyes pop out as Mitti joined their table.
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But her outrageous ensemble was just one of several eye-popping outfits worn by musical babes at the show.
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Their eyes were popped right out of their heads, the heads that still had them.
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Mum's eyes popped to see me bringing home the fireman.
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Spinning bodies, eyes popping out of heads, hair standing on end, characters morphing into strange creatures.
head
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My head popped outside; five young men were bounding out of the darkness from a car on the road.
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Maryland Coach Gary Williams looks so tense sometimes I think his head is going to pop right off his shoulders.
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His head popped up a second later.
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If a head popped up to study the terrain, a bullet followed from the other side.
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Today I run until a vein in the back of my head feels ready to pop .
lot
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Then after filling a plastic bag she popped the lot in the bin.
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I popped the lot and tried my hardest to meditate.
mind
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List these assets and liabilities at random as they pop into your mind or as they are suggested to you by others.
mouth
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He took a pill from his pocket, and popped it into his mouth .
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He scooped up a handful of the cakes, and popped one into his mouth .
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I picked a berry and popped it in my mouth .
pill
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The producers must be popping pills too.
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But when coach is a financial necessity, read a few books, enjoy the movies and pop some sleeping pills .
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But the judges must have been popping the same pills as Martin Fowler.
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The post-exposure prevention offered through the research protocol entails more than merely popping a few pills the morning after.
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Zen popped two motion-sickness pills out of their plastic nests and put them in his mouth.
question
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Berg responded by getting up too, saying he must go but popping in another question as he backed towards the door.
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Boy goes back on radio and pops the question .
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He put a ladder up to her office window to pop the question as she sat at her desk.
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Journalists just pop them a question and let them get on with it.
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Meanwhile, his girlfriend of 17 years, Jenette, was delighted when Brian popped the question .
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He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question .
vox
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The organiser said he didn't believe in them. vox pops At last the big moment.
week
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Hardly a week passes without his popping up in Washington for some top Republican strategy session on budget-balancing.
■ VERB
begin
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Up in the woods many of the buds that catch the sun have begun to pop .
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Then other mushrooms began popping up.
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Blue people began popping up all over the plateau.
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Other sites containing X Games information have already begun to pop up.
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Now scores of mice have begun popping out of the woodwork.
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Before long, rumors about misbehavior began to pop up.
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In Mike Straus, he had a commissioner who would stoke the engine until the rivets began to pop .
hear
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As he straightened up he heard the joints pop and winced.
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Too many people talked at once; his hearing aids popped like corn in a pan of oil.
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That logger even believes you can hear it popping as the pockets burst.
keep
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In Copenhagen, the same sorry faces kept popping up in separate incidents like rent-a-thug.
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It just keeps popping up, again and again.
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New versions of Big Brother keep popping up.
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Even though federal courts have declared such displays unconstitutional, the issue keeps popping up, especially in the Bible Belt.
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It will usually reduce to recession and afterwards keep popping up to plague the auditor.
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But as if to allay our disappointment, teams of curious sea lions kept popping up near our kayaks.
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Everywhere we went, every town we traveled to, I kept expecting Slim to pop up again.
notice
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You know how it is when you start to notice a person popping up all over the place?
pass
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Hardly a week passes without his popping up in Washington for some top Republican strategy session on budget-balancing.
start
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Volcanos will start popping off around the world throwing up tonnes of dust.
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Our radio really started popping with reports of what was going on.
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Like a sudden, unseemly outbreak of boils on the landscape, the little concrete igloos started popping up in the 1970s.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
his/her etc eyes were popping (out of his/her etc head)
pop the question
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Boy goes back on radio and pops the question .
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He put a ladder up to her office window to pop the question as she sat at her desk.
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Meanwhile, his girlfriend of 17 years, Jenette, was delighted when Brian popped the question .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Pop it in the microwave for a couple of minutes.
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I'll pop some popcorn before the movie starts.
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Jody, please don't pop my balloon.
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She took out a piece of chewing gum and popped it in her mouth.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also popping up for a visit are Stephen and the twins' parents, whose marriage has gone stale over the decades.
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Berg responded by getting up too, saying he must go but popping in another question as he backed towards the door.
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I should have told you we go up to kill men and not pop balloons?
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I sort of noticed, Joe, how you've been absent since things started popping round here.
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It just keeps popping up, again and again.
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Later, we stroll out and pop them in our mailbox, which says T.T.
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They should pop down to accounting or purchasing and introduce themselves to the people they deal with.
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We popped smoke right in the middle of where we were and told them just to shoot on either side.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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But in a book he's written he's had a real big pop at me in a sour way.
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Within a year, Boy George was the biggest pop star in the world.
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He may not be the biggest pop star in the world but he's certainly the most unapproachable.
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Another big pop concert, eh!
classic
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The genuine craft of Hogan's songwriting is in her re-interpretation of the classic pop song.
good
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Romantic black music must be the best kind of pop .
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In 1994, Crouch had just picked up his seventh Grammy for best pop / contemporary gospel album.
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Cher is pretty good at pop too.
new
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The Scotch of St James, off Piccadilly, was the club that pulled in the new pop generation.
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This is the context in which the new pop concern to disrupt consumption can be seen as a valid political project.
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Parallel with this style ran the cultural and financial activities of Britain's new pop aristocracy.
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But once record companies went back on the sales offensive the new pop was easily coopted.
perfect
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It will probably take six or seven minutes in all, and will be a perfect pop group performance.
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One of those bands is the Cloudwatchers, whose latest cassette single provides two good blueprints for the perfect pop song.
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Haunted by the spectre of Northern Soul, wrapped in perfect pop melodies and probably the best record this year.
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Then, as now, each year could be defined by one king-hell slice of perfect pop that said it all.
pure
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The pure pop act also has its problems when it comes to exposure.
top
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And they're number one ... they're top of the pops ... but who are they?
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Baby, if he keeps on grabbing his chances as a dad he could even become top of the pops .
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All three express an interest in opera and a disdain for top forty pop .
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High spot of the concert was a guest appearance by top pop band Shakatak.
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It is exactly 40 years since the first record sales charts were compiled to determine who was top of the pops .
■ NOUN
art
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Much the opposite with postmodernist surrealism and pop art .
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People think I put it there as a piece of pop art to decorate the room.
band
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Nautical William are a pop band .
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A proper pop band , not a pretend one.
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Nomatterwhat they say, they're a pop band , and a damn fine one at that.
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If you say we're more of a pop band , then that's a compliment.
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It was a time when Madness seemed the most immortal of pop bands .
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High spot of the concert was a guest appearance by top pop band Shakatak.
concert
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And then there were the free pop concerts which attracted as many as a quarter of a million hippies.
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After all, they argued, the State doesn't subsidise auto racing, hunting and pop concerts .
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Every night, he seemed to go out to posh nightclubs, to restaurants and to major pop concerts .
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Another big pop concert , eh!
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Several small incidents, one revolving around a pop concert , incited more students into action.
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After a one-and-a-half-hour pop concert the political programme began.
fan
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You know, every week pop fans stop me on the street, the noo.
group
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At last year's final, another pop group , Dollar, also mimed to a recording for its guest spot.
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Gedge can not remember a time when he did not want to be in a pop group .
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It will probably take six or seven minutes in all, and will be a perfect pop group performance.
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There is much more to civic provision than ageing pop groups or racist comedians.
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Additionally, there was an evening barbecue entertained by a local pop group .
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A pop group is not a group of social workers.
guitar
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Their sound, previously user-friendly indie guitar pop , is now deeply mood-led and spine-tinglingly atmospheric, ethereal master class stuff.
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My focus was more on, like, guitar pop and classical music and some weird experimental industrial stuff.
idol
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They knew we'd been talking to their pop idols and they just wanted to touch us.
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They're to appear at Oxford's Appolo theatre with fifties pop idol Russ Conway.
music
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But some pop music seems so aggressive.
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When you work in rock and pop music , you are in the thick undergrowth.
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In the Sixties Gurus and pop music were the thing; the present mood is sombre and apocalyptic.
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So, if you're popping down a daily aspirin, keep the pop music down too.
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The pop music and fashion industries were geared specifically towards the young and magazines flourished in order to promote these trends.
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Songs are the lifeblood of pop music , and all the artists I have represented have been heavily involved in songwriting.
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The manager can manipulate some things to stave that off, but pop music is about being popular.
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We grew up in a world of chainstore high fashion, middle-of-the-road revolution, cover-version original pop music .
record
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Famous Last Words a pop record released by A &038; M was widely advertised as available on chrome tape.
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Yes, it's another football pop record .
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I've always liked amusing pop records .
singer
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Comment Maggie is a young, burnt-out pop singer .
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Unsurprising, you might argue, given the chequered history of pop singers in the theatre.
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These were thickest round the comedians, the film stars and the pop singers .
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The logical culmination of the process came when the pop singer and song-writer Elton John took over the chairmanship of Watford.
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It also seemed terribly contemporary in a society where pop singers were becoming the spokespeople of the age.
soda
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He is drinking soda pop out of a can the same shrill dayglo orange colour as emergency road markings.
song
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It just makes it more interesting than a terrible pop song with a straight sequenced beat like a Kylie Minogue record.
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Read in studio A promotion-chasing football team has taken the day off from a hectic training schedule to record a pop song .
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One of those bands is the Cloudwatchers, whose latest cassette single provides two good blueprints for the perfect pop song .
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Genesis meanwhile have netted more than £200 million with mainstream pop songs and sponsorship from major corporations.
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They came out of the world writing pop songs , at the very end.
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I don't think it's a pop song that dictates to them.
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The genuine craft of Hogan's songwriting is in her re-interpretation of the classic pop song .
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She realized she was humming a pop song to herself, and blushed.
star
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I recall, in my confusion, being inanely impressed by a pop star with enough upstairs to remember his own name.
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The whole plastic notion of a pop star begins to ring the bells of truth.
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He'd heard another pop star was coming to York - some one called Fergal.
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Sixties pop star Dave Clark, 50.
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He may not be the biggest pop star in the world but he's certainly the most unapproachable.
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The platitudes of rich pop stars won't change a thing - direct action just might.
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She watched television, listened to music, and dreamed about favourite pop stars - just like any normal teenager.
stars
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Either the media or pop stars dictate what's in fashion.
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We don't look like pop stars , we're just us!
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In the end it was rather like working for two pop stars .
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The platitudes of rich pop stars won't change a thing - direct action just might.
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She watched television, listened to music, and dreamed about favourite pop stars - just like any normal teenager.
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His last performance was another sell-out, ending with scenes of adulation normally reserved for pop stars .
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To a generation of prospective pop stars , the video offered new possibilities of benediction.
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Sports heroes and pop stars provide images for teenagers, who may imitate them and style themselves upon them.
video
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The rise of the pop video was an important element in the growing supremacy of style over substance.
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Martin who was directing pop videos at the time showed me the video just after leaving college.
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The pop video had become a commodity saleable to the public.
world
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The pop world was a far cry from Joe's beginnings in the Gloucestershire town of Newent.
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Read in studio Five young men with a passion for music are all set to become the darlings of the pop world .
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Their success gave them a power that everyone wanted to share; their commercial momentum carried the whole pop world along.
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It's been a reggae smash for weeks on end but no-one in the pop world has noticed yet.
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The worst-kept secret in the pop world this week has leaked.
■ VERB
become
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Baby, if he keeps on grabbing his chances as a dad he could even become top of the pops .
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It can't become a pop show, it has to stay the way it is.
hear
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He'd heard another pop star was coming to York - some one called Fergal.
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Sometimes I hear beer can-like pops , too.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
his/her etc eyes were popping (out of his/her etc head)
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Hi, Pop , what are you doing?
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I helped Pop fix the gate this morning.
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Relax, Pop , I'll have the car back by midnight.
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The pop we heard turned out to be just an air gun.
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There's a pop in the fridge for you.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A mutual understanding of pop is what brought the three members of Papas Fritas together in the first place.
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As well as pork, you can buy milk, sweets, crisps and pop .
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Cameron knew how good his son really was, and encouraged him to break free of the pop straitjacket.
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Gould wrote in all these forms save opera, plus dance scores, film music, musicals and pops pieces.
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I don't think their audience cares about pop success, they don't buy stuff because it is in the charts.
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It is important to stress, though, that a pop critic's power is limited.
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This is how far we've strayed from the traditional concepts of pop .