pop out

pop out
verb
1. appear suddenly (Freq. 3)
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Spring popped up everywhere in the valley

• Syn: ↑burst out
• Hypernyms: ↑appear
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s

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Something is ——ing PP

2. bulge outward
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His eyes popped

• Syn:
↑start, ↑protrude, ↑pop, ↑bulge, ↑bulge out, ↑bug out, ↑come out
• Derivationally related forms: ↑bulge (for: ↑bulge), ↑protrusible (for: ↑protrude), ↑protrusive (for: ↑protrude), ↑protrusion (for: ↑protrude)
• Hypernyms: ↑change shape, ↑change form, ↑deform
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s

3. exit briefly
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He popped out for a quick coffee break

• Ant: ↑pop in
• Hypernyms: ↑exit, ↑go out, ↑get out, ↑leave
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s

4. come out suddenly or forcefully
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you stick a bill in the vending machine and the change pops out

• Hypernyms: ↑issue, ↑emerge, ↑come out, ↑come forth, ↑go forth, ↑egress
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s

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Something is ——ing PP

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ˌpop ˈout [intransitive] [present tense I/you/we/they pop out he/she/it pops out present participle popping out past tense popped out past participle popped out] informal phrasal verb
if words pop out, you say them suddenly without thinking about it first

I didn’t mean to say that – it just popped out.

Thesaurus: to mention something, or to be mentionedsynonym to admit that something is truesynonym
Main entry: pop

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make an out in a baseball game by hitting a pop fly that is caught

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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