pop v.2
to pawn.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Letter Writers II ii: Damn him, he’ll make us pop our Unders for the Reckoning: We’ll not go with him. | |
| , , | | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | ‘De Night before Larry was Stretch’d’ Irish Songster 4: When a boy was condemned to the Squeezer, / Would pop all de duds dat he had, / To help his comrade to a Sneezer. | |
| Sporting Mag. Aug. VIII 253/1: I pledge my word (which, in truth, is the only thing I have to pop, all the rest being in.). | |
| Lex. Balatronicum. | |
| Elbow-Shakers! I i: As to get a little drop, / I’ve scarce a rag to pop. | |
| Modern Flash Dict. | |
| Punch I 77: The eight waistcoats wanted for dinner. Peter ordered to pop accordingly – proceeds 7s. 6d. Invested in a small leg of mutton and half and half. | |
| ‘Paddy’s Employment’ Irish Songster 48: If to-day, my shirt I pop. | |
| Wild Tribes of London 29: She used to work slops for old Melchizdek, the Jew; but when her mother was ill she popped the duds. | |
| (con. 1840s–50s) London Labour and London Poor I 124/2: I was hard up at last, and I popped my watch for a sovereign. | |
| Hants. Advertiser 21 Oct.7/6: Who is particular about / All articles put 'up the spout' / [...] / Who'd lose by prey which thieves might pop? / My Unclde. | |
| Knocknagow 40: I was obliged to pop my watch last night. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bulletin (Sydney) 26 Mar. 9/3: Had to ‘pop’ my sealskin to pay board. | |
| My Secret Life (1966) I 146: She [...] examined the handkerchief very carefully. ‘It’s a rare good new one, it will pop for half-a-crown.’. | |
| Truth (Sydney) 19 Feb. 3/8: Went to their bankers, tried and true, / And popped the Crown and Sceptre. | |
| ‘Slaves of the Lamp’ Pt I Complete Stalky & Co. (1987) 58: Confound you! You haven’t been popping my Sunday bags, then? | |
| Bulletin Reciter 1880–1901 181: Popped me watch, and made de missus / Go and pawn ’er weddin’ ring. | |
| [perf. Vesta Victoria] Oh Amelia 🎵 Make him pop the question, when popping your father’s pants. | |
| City Of The World 172: I popped the old man’s trousers last night. | |
| Truth (Melbourne) 3 Jan. 10/6: For you see a interesting / Tidy little piece of skirt / Induce a sporting josser / For to go and pop his shirt. | |
| Inimitable Jeeves 33: Made me feel like a pawnbroker. More than a touch of popping the watch about the whole business. | |
| South Riding (1988) 333: Fact is, I popped the bike. | |
| Horse’s Mouth (1948) 16: Don’t you pop them or I’ll cut your liver out. | |
| Joyful Condemned 166: All the girls are popping their rings to get her bail. | |
| ‘Whisper All Aussie Dict.’ in Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xxxviii 10/2: pop: To pawn. | |
| Cockney Dialect and Sl. 92: Pop ‘to pawn’, by taking things to the pop-shop. |
In compounds
a pawnbroker’s shop.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Town & Country Mag. Feb. 73/1: His father was a pawnbroker near St Giles’s [...] The pop shop was ready for the pledges, the gin shop was ready for the money lent upon them. | |
| , , | | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
| ‘Jonny Raw and Polly Clark’ in Batchelar’s Jovial Fellows Collection of Songs 4: He cried, you Pol I’ll break your pate, Ri tol de rol. / For everything that I have got, / You’ve hauled off to the pop shop. | |
| Lex. Balatronicum. | |
| ‘Job Halls And Mike Hunt’ in Lummy Chaunter 84: His friend kept a pop shop just at the house front. | |
| Comic Almanack Dec. 298: So many dissecting cases were to be seen in the window of the pop-shop on the corner. | |
| Bell’s Life in Sydney 25 July 1/3: He went with his daughter to the pop-shop and applied for the pledge. | |
| ‘Drunkard’s Farewell to his Folly’ in Curiosities of Street Lit. (1871) 91: Farewell to the pop-shop races. | |
| Bell’s Life in Sydney 20 Feb. 2/6: Me keepy pop shop Kent-street [...] gold chain for lady necklace ask seven pounds. | |
| ‘Dunmow Flitch’ in Curiosities of Street Lit. (1871) 144: Some scores will to the pop-shop run. | |
| Bristol Magpie 21 Sept. 3/2: [scene. A ‘Pop’ shop in Castle street.] Female Customer, (displaying old and faded pair of curtains):—‘I want’s half a soverin’ on they!’ Pawnbroker, (after inspection, flinging them down with a grin):— ‘Half-a-what?’. | |
| Aus. Sl. Dict. 60: Pop Shop, a pawnbroker’s shop. | |
| Hagar of the Pawn-shop 54: Rosa, to get rid of the necklace until the affair of the murder was blown over, might pawn it [...] so I sent a printed slip to all the pop-shops in London. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Otago Witness (N.Z.) 11 Dec. 90/1: Take that thing away; this isn’t a Pop shop, mind thee. | |
| Truth (Melbourne) 7 Feb. 6/2: [headline] Gold Watch Traced to a ‘Pop Shop’. | |
| Bully Hayes 193: All the second-hand and pop shops in Sydney. | |
| Horse’s Mouth (1948) 244: Off I went to the pop shop with the Sevres teapot. | |
| Bobbin Up (1961) 83: Scabby-looking dresses picked up in the pop shops. | |
| ‘Whisper All Aussie Dict.’ in Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xliii 11/2: uncles: A pawnbroker’s place of business. Also popshop. | |
| Cockney Dialect and Sl. 92: Pop ‘to pawn’, by taking things to the pop-shop. | |
| Karl Marx 222: One by one, the new pieces of furniture and the precious old linen found their way back to the pop-shop. |
In phrases
to die.
 | Shipley Times and Express Mid-Week Supp. 13 May 7/2: [N]oab’dy could tak’ it [i.e. money] wi’ ’em when they popped ther clogs. | |
| Ten Little Niggers [play script] 11: I’m stretched to the limit keeping the estate ticking over since Pop popped his clogs. | |
| Lady from Stalingrad Mansions 17: Do you know, when he popped his clogs, it was still going like the clappers, after nearly eighty years. | |
| ‘Get Daley!’ Minder [TV script] 52: Soon as Joe popped his clogs, he did a runner. | |
| Guardian Guide 5–12 June 71: Having popped his clogs 15 years previously. | |
| Indep. Rev. 7 Jan. 8: Most people [...] would like it to be done to them when they pop their clogs. | |
| Beyond Black 37: Happiest day of my life when that fucker popped his clogs. | |
| Empty Wigs (t/s) 161: [I]t’s too late now. The blighter popped his clogs in a coach crash outside Ghent. |