Pop Explained

Pop or POP may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Pop music, a musical genre

Artists

• POP, a Japanese idol group now known as Gang Parade
• Pop!, a UK pop group
• Pop! featuring Angie Hart, an Australian band

Albums

• Pop (Gas album)
• Pop (Joachim Witt album)
• Pop (Mao Abe album)
• Pop (Same Difference album)
• Pop (Tones on Tail album)
• Pop (U2 album)
• Pop, an album by Topi Sorsakoski and Agents
• P.O.P, The Mad Capsule Markets album
• Pop! The First 20 Hits, an album by English duo Erasure

Songs

• "Pop" (NSYNC song), a 2001 song
• "Pop!" (Nayeon song), a song from the album Im Nayeon
• "Pop", a song by A.R. Kane
• "Pop", a song by Ari Lennox from Shea Butter Baby
• "Pop", a song by La Oreja de Van Gogh from El viaje de Copperpot
• "Pop", a song by Death Grips from No Love Deep Web.
• "Pop!", a song from The Wedding Singer musical

Periodicals

• Pop (fashion magazine), a British publication
• Pop Magazine, a sports magazine

Television

• Pop (American TV channel), formerly TVGN
• Pop (British and Irish TV channel), for children
• Pop (Slovenian TV channel), Slovenia
• Pop (Pakistani TV channel), for children
• Pop (Italy)

Toys

• POP! vinyl figurines from Funko
• Princess of Power, Mattel toys

Video games

• Prince of Persia, video game franchise
• Pop (video game)

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• PoP!, the fictional band in Music and Lyrics
• Pokémon Organized Play, trading cards

Commerce

• Pop, slang for pawning goods with a pawnbroker
• Pay on production
• Point of purchase, used often in retail
• Proof of principle
• Proof-of-payment, a fare collection approach

Organizations

• Eton Society, nickname
• Pencils of Promise, a charity
• Pop, a US company owned by Advance Publications Inc.

Places

• Gregorio Luperón International Airport (IATA code POP), Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
• Pop, a tributary of the river Jijia in eastern Romania
• Pop, Uzbekistan, a town in Namangan Region, Uzbekistan
• Poppleton railway station (station code), York, England

People

• Pop (nickname)
• Pop (surname), a Romanian surname
• Pop Chalee (1906–1993), American painter, muralist, performer and singer born Merina Lujan
• Pop Harukaze, a.k.a. Caitlyn Goodwyn, a fictional character from the anime/manga series Ojamajo Doremi
• Iggy Pop (born 1947), American musician
• Jimmy Pop (born 1972), American musician
• Pop Smoke (1999–2020), American rapper

Science and technology

Computing

• Operation removing element from a stack (abstract data type)
• Package on package, IC packaging
• Point of presence, a demarcation point between communicating entities
• POP and POP3, Internet e-mail Post Office Protocols
• POP-1 POP-2 POP-11, programming languages
• Pop! OS, a Linux distribution

Other uses in science and technology

• Pop (physics), sixth derivative of position
• Parallel Ocean Program, an ocean circulation model
• Paroxypropione, P.O.P.
• Persistent organic pollutant
• Probability of precipitation, in weather forecasting
• Progestogen-only pill, a contraceptive
• Pelvic organ prolapse, a gynecological condition
• Blind rivet
• Plaster of Paris, plaster of Gypsum
• Pop, a recording noise from plosives, see pop filter

Sport

• Pop (professional wrestling), a crowd cheer
• POP Championship (Princess of Pro-Wrestling), Japan

Other uses

• POP (Point of Purchase typeface), in Japanese Kanji
• Pop (ghost), in Thai folklore
• The first month of the Haabʼ in the Mayan calendar
• Pacific Ocean Park, an amusement park
• Problem-oriented policing
• Pop, a truncation of the word popular, e.g., popular culture → pop culture
• Pop, dialect for soft drink
• Pop, an informal term for a father or occasionally a grandfather
• Pop., an abbreviation for population
• Pop Mie, an instant cup noodle brand which is a sub-brand of Indomie, first introduced in Indonesia in 1991

See also

• Popping (disambiguation)
• Pops (disambiguation)
• Project Pop, an Indonesian pop group