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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}]

English Dictionary: pop off by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pipe up
v
  1. begin to play or sing
  2. utter a shrill cry
    Synonym(s): shriek, shrill, pipe up, pipe
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pop off
v
  1. leave quickly
  2. 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
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pop up
v
  1. 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
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pop-up
n
  1. 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
  2. a short high fly ball
    Synonym(s): pop fly, pop-fly, pop-up
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
puff up
v
  1. make larger or distend; "The estimates were puffed up"
  2. 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
  3. become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"
    Synonym(s): swell, puff up
  4. praise extravagantly; "The critics puffed up this Broadway production"
    Synonym(s): puff, puff up
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}.

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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