pop n.3
1. one’s father.
![]() | in South West Hist. Quarterly XXX (1926) 147: Sent my packet [...] to pop in the post office in N Orleans [DA]. | |
![]() | Hoosier Mosaics 191: Mammy, where’s pap? | |
![]() | Detroit Free Press 22 Dec. n.p.: Jerry wants a new pop right bad [F&H]. | |
![]() | Street in Suburbia 18: Pop’s in bed wi’ the rheumatiz. | |
![]() | Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 325: Wait for yer pop. | |
![]() | Abe And Mawruss 108: ‘Say, Pop,’ Sydney began, ‘how about you for twenty till Saturday night?’. | |
![]() | Inimitable Jeeves 87: My pop’s richer than you are. | |
![]() | Young Man of Manhattan 17: Poppa in Porland. | |
![]() | ‘Cumberland Gap’ in Lomax & Lomax Amer. Ballads and Folk Songs 275: I’ve got a woman in Cumberland Gap, / She’s got a boy that calls me ‘pap’. | |
![]() | May the Twelfth: Mass-Observation Day-Surveys 3:15: ‘Will you cook my bacon with yours pop?’ Father: ‘D’you want your eggs poached or fried?’. | |
![]() | Sel. Letters (1992) 3: Pop was here on Saturday [...] bearing my (official) copy of/from ‘the Listener’ & a cheque for 2 gns. | letter 9 Dec. in Thwaite|
![]() | Little Men, Big World 167: The crowded flat with his mom and pop and six little brothers and sisters. | |
![]() | Syndicate (1998) 6: My pop used to take me out on a trawler when I was just a baby. | |
![]() | Faggots 223: Being the daddy to someone who is the son, another, therefore, being the sonny to that pop. | |
![]() | (con. 1982–6) Cocaine Kids (1990) 74: My moms and pops always wanted Hector and me to go to college. | |
![]() | 8 Ball Chicks (1998) 210: Once upon a time I used to call him Poppy — like my dad or something. | |
![]() | Mr Blue 15: I nodded. ‘I’ll remember, Pop.’. | |
![]() | Tuff 36: Yo, your pop groovier-than-a-motherfucker. | |
![]() | Rough Riders 17: ‘I’m still pissed off at your father.’ [...] ‘Yeah, pop said you might be upset’. |
2. an older, respected man; often as nickname.
![]() | ‘Julianna Johnson’ cited in AS (1965) XL:2 131: And I’ll go down to ole birginy, And marry pop Miller’s sister. | |
![]() | Sporting Life (Philadelphia) 29 May 2/6: ‘Pop’ Chadwick is among those who are opposed to the wire [DA]. | |
![]() | Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 190: I want you to meet Pop Frisbee, one of my old friends. | ‘The Phantom League’ in|
![]() | Compensations of War (1983) 106: I was still awake when ‘Pop’ Campbell came down. | diary 24 June in Carnes|
![]() | Right Ho, Jeeves 204: Old Pop Kipling never said a truer word than when he made that crack about the f. of the s. being more d. than the m. | |
![]() | Lucky Palmer 1: A dark boy aged fourteen was peering through the side window [...] trying to make out the bowed figure of ‘Pop’ Bradon, Clarrie’s assistant. | |
![]() | Sweet Money Girl 63: The Pop of our crew. | |
![]() | Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 158: The front door, Stilton, old dance partner, is what one presumes Pop Steppings has in mind [...] Correct, Steppings? | |
![]() | Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 16: Want to know what the Jerries were really like? Ask Pop Gibbon. | |
![]() | Layer Cake 61: It’s like that old pop wrote about it being the best of times and the worst of times. |
3. a term of address to an old(er) man.
![]() | Bulletin (Sydney) 7 Feb. 12/2: Young Wiggins: ‘See here, pop, I be too little to lick you, and you be too big to lick me. Let’s call it a day.’. | |
![]() | Tramping with Tramps 243: See here, pop; what date is to-day? | |
![]() | Fact’ry ’Ands 144: ‘Does she mean the young un’s really hers?’ he said. ‘Sure, pop [...] Hers for keeps.’. | |
![]() | White Light Nights 138: ‘Well, Pop, what they got you for?’ asked a youthful alcoholic. | |
![]() | Tramp-Royal on the Toby 290: Aw, pop, why dontcha spill it? | |
![]() | (con. 1944) Naked and Dead 232: I’m sorry I disturbed ya, pop. | |
![]() | Oh Boy! No. 20 9: I’ll take your gold Pop – and keep your hands away from your guns if you want to stay healthy. | |
![]() | Corner Boy 24: ‘Pop’ was not a family endearment. The name had become fastened to Papaseppe Garveli by the neighborhood [...] he had been ‘Pop’ from almost the first day he opened for business. | |
![]() | Saved Scene xi: Ain’ worth it, pop. | |
![]() | Garden of Sand (1981) 115: OK, pop. You come down when you can. | |
![]() | Spike Island (1981) 62: ‘Dis-disorderly?’ ‘Aye, pop, drunk and disorderly.’. | |
![]() | Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 147: More like a doll’s house from now on, Pop. | |
![]() | One Night Out Stealing 90: How’re ya, Pop? |
4. (US gay/prison) a masculine lesbian.
![]() | Cast the First Stone 32: Big Bertha [...] She was head pop. Not very pretty. [...] But she would’ve been a swell-looking boy. [Ibid.] 254: pop The girl who takes the male role in a lesbian relationship. | |
![]() | in Hellhole 82: The bulldykes’re called ‘pops’ at Hudson – and the social workers can’t stop the pops from anything. |