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pops

nounnounverbcommon in dialogue

  • United States//pɑps//

Father, dad.

noun

  1. 1

    informalFather, dad.

    Hey, pops, I'm home.

  2. 2

    informalA man old enough to be the speaker's father.

Etymology

From pop (“dad”) + -s (hypocoristic suffix).

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of popinformalplural of pop (the sound and related meanings)

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of popinformalthird-person singular simple present indicative of pop

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).