Pop ‧ eye /ˈpɒpaɪ $ ˈpɑː-/ BrE AmE
a character also called Popeye the Sailorman, in a US ↑ cartoon strip and ↑ cartoon films. Popeye is a sailor who smokes a pipe, and when he eats cans of ↑ spinach (=a vegetable with large dark green leaves) his muscles immediately grow much bigger and he becomes very strong.