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English Dictionary: pop off |
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pep up
v 1: spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts; "The
crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers" [syn: {cheer},
{root on}, {inspire}, {urge}, {barrack}, {urge on},
{exhort}, {pep up}]
2: make more interesting or lively; "juice up a party"; "pep up
your paper" [syn: {jazz up}, {juice up}, {pep up}, {ginger
up}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- pipe up
- v
- begin to play or sing
- utter a shrill cry
Synonym(s): shriek, shrill, pipe up, pipe
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- pop off
- v
- leave quickly
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
Synonym(s): die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it Antonym(s): be born
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- pop up
- v
- appear suddenly or unexpectedly; "The farm popped into view
as we turned the corner"; "He suddenly popped up out of nowhere"
Synonym(s): crop up, pop up, pop
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- pop-up
- n
- a book (usually for children) that contains one or more
pages such that a three-dimensional structure rises up when a page is opened
Synonym(s): pop-up book, pop-up
- a short high fly ball
Synonym(s): pop fly, pop-fly, pop-up
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- puff up
- v
- make larger or distend; "The estimates were puffed up"
- to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests"
Synonym(s): puff, puff up, blow up, puff out
- become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"
Synonym(s): swell, puff up
- praise extravagantly; "The critics puffed up this Broadway production"
Synonym(s): puff, puff up
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Poppy \Pop"py\, n.; pl. {Poppies}. [OE. popy, AS. popig, L.
papaver.] (Bot.)
Any plant or species of the genus {Papaver}, herbs with showy
polypetalous flowers and a milky juice. From one species
({Papaver somniferum}) opium is obtained, though all the
species contain it to some extent; also, a flower of the
plant. See Illust. of {Capsule}.
{California poppy} (Bot.), any yellow-flowered plant of the
genus {Eschscholtzia}.
{Corn poppy}. See under {Corn}.
{Horn}, [or] {Horned}, {poppy}. See under {Horn}.
{Poppy bee} (Zo[94]l.), a leaf-cutting bee ({Anthocopa
papaveris}) which uses pieces cut from poppy petals for
the lining of its cells; -- called also {upholsterer bee}.
{Prickly poppy} (Bot.), {Argemone Mexicana}, a
yellow-flowered plant of the Poppy family, but as prickly
as a thistle.
{Poppy seed}, the seed the opium poppy ({P. somniferum}).
{Spatling poppy} (Bot.), a species of Silene ({S. inflata}).
See {Catchfly}.
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From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: |
Pope AFB, NC (CDP, FIPS 53360)
Location: 35.16866 N, 79.01056 W
Population (1990): 2857 (472 housing units)
Area: 7.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
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