popcorn

noun

1. 1

   A snack food made from corn or maize kernels popped by dry heating.

   My friends and I ordered popcorn during the interval of the movie.

2. 2

   A snack food made from corn or maize kernels popped by dry heating. A variety of corn or maize with a hard outer hull that, along with the type of starch it contains, makes it suitable for popping.

   That farm grows popcorn.

3. 3

   A snack food made from corn or maize kernels popped by dry heating. A serving of popcorn.

   I'll have a small popcorn.

   Warner Bros has offered the two executives less than dollars 1m as an out-of-court settlement, a sum dismissed by Mr [Pierce] O'Donnell as 'two popcorns and two Cokes'.

   When we went to Astoria, to see 'Drive Me Crazy,' they gave you one popcorn and the other one was free. I asked her if she wanted to eat mine, but she said there was so much popcorn, she was going to get sick.

   Every Wednesday night is Date Night, and for $10 sweethearts can get two tickets, two popcorns and two sodas.

4. 4

   rareA snack food made from corn or maize kernels popped by dry heating. A piece of popcorn.

   She keeps dropping her popcorns.

   Some popcorns silently flicked off like face peelings on his shoe.

   Don’t you feel this is nothing but throwing popcorns before a hungry elephant? This is definitely throwing popcorns before the hungry elephant. This is the imbalance that I wanted to pointed out.

   Sarani threw a few popcorns into her mouth.

5. 5

   A snack food made from corn or maize kernels popped by dry heating. A bite-size food preparation made by battering and deep-frying one or more ingredients, most often chicken.

   popcorn chicken

   Last night we had popcorn chicken.

6. 6

   figurativeA snack food made from corn or maize kernels popped by dry heating. Entertainment that is, or has the potential to be, popular but is vapid and provides little intellectual or artistic merit.

   The movie was entertaining enough, but it was just popcorn entertainment.

   popcorn movies

7. 7

   figurativeA snack food made from corn or maize kernels popped by dry heating. Entertainment for observers.

   If they get in a fight, I'm just going to sit back and enjoy the popcorn.

   And not at all about how a state picks which group of electors to send, which is the whole basis of the NaPoVoInterCo plan, and will yield plenty more Supreme Court popcorn if it ever gets enacted.

8. 8

   A kind of stitch similar to a bobble.

   From the top the sample shows four stitch popcorns, five stitch bobbles, two rows of bells and a central leaf with leaves sloping to the left and right each side.

9. 9

   A form of brainstorming in which participants call out their ideas immediately, instead of waiting for an assigned turn to speak.

   With the "popcorn" method, all team members in the session spontaneously call out ideas and a facilitator writes them on a flip chart.

   As a way to begin the discussion about God's will, you might want to ask the group to do some "popcorn" brainstorming about the pros and cons of believing that everything that happens is God's will.

   Ask: What Twitter-style hashtag characterizes our community? (Use popcorn brainstorming to elicit responses.)

10. 10

    A slow Belgian style of soul music popular in the early 1960s.

11. 11

    A Romanian style of Europop popular in the late 2000s.

12. 12

    A jump straight up with all four feet off the ground.

verb

1. 1

   To stand or jump up quickly.

2. 2

   To pop repeatedly, like popcorn cooking.

3. 3

   rareTo use the popcorn stitch.

   You've been cabling, twisting, popcorning and bobbling. See, we told you that they weren't so hard.

Forms

plural

popcorns

past tense

popcorned

past participle

popcorned

present participle

popcorning

third person singular

popcorns