Pop

Pop is an onomatopoeic word for a small explosion. It may also refer to:

Common meanings

• Father
• Soft drink
• Pop music, a music genre

People

• Pop (nickname)
• Pop (surname), a Romanian surname
• Iggy Pop (born 1947), American musician
• Jimmy Pop (born 1972), American musician
• Pop Chalee (1906–1993), American painter, muralist, performer and singer

Places

• Pop River (Jijia), Romania
• Pop River (Sadu), Romania

Entertainment

• Pacific Ocean Park, an amusement park
• Pokémon Organized Play, a trading card and figure organization

Publishing

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

Television

• Pop (U.S. TV network), an American cable network formerly known as TVGN until January 2015
• Pop (UK and Ireland), a UK and Ireland children's television channel
• POP TV, a Slovenian television network

Products

• Princess of Power, a toyline created by Mattel
• POP! vinyl figures, a series of popular-culture-themed figurines from Funko

Video games

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

Music

• Pop music, a genre
• Pop!, a UK pop group
• Pop! featuring Angie Hart, an Australian band
• PoP!, the fictional band in Music and Lyrics
• POP, a Japanese idol group led by former BiS member Kamiya Saki

Albums

• Pop (Gas album)
• Pop (Joachim Witt album)
• Pop (Mao Abe album)
• Pop (Same Difference album)
• Pop (Tones on Tail album)
• Pop (Topi Sorsakoski and Agents album), by Topi Sorsakoski and the band Agents
• Pop (U2 album)
• Pop! The First 20 Hits, a compilation album by the English synthpop duo Erasure
• P.O.P (The Mad Capsule Markets album), Japanese-language album by The Mad Capsule Markets
• P.O.P, the debut album by Japanese idol group POP

Songs

• "Pop" (song), by 'N Sync
• "Pop" (A.R. Kane song), a 1989 single by A.R. Kane

Business

• Pay on production
• Point of purchase, used often in retail
• Proof-of-payment, a fare collection approach
• Proof of purchase
• Proof of Principle, a stage in product development; see Proof of concept

Science and technology

• Package on package, a circuit packaging technique
• Parallel Ocean Program, an ocean circulation model
• Partial-order planning, an algorithm
• Persistent organic pollutant, an organic compound resistant to degradation
• Point of presence, a demarcation point between communications entities
• Post Office Protocol, an Internet e-mail protocol
• Probability of precipitation, a weather forecasting measure
• Process oriented psychology
• Progestogen-only pill, a contraceptive
• "pop", removing an entity from a Stack (abstract data type)
• Pop (physics), sixth derivative of position
• Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, a medical journal

Sport

• Pop (professional wrestling), a positive reaction from the spectators
• POP Championship (Princess of Pro-Wrestling), a Japanese professional wrestling championship

Other uses

• Pop (ghost), a fearful female ghost of Thai folklore
• Pop, one of the 18 months of the Haab', a part of the Maya calendar system
• Eton Society, an organisation at Eton College nicknamed "Pop"
• Pencils of Promise, a charity
• Plaster of Paris
• Problem-oriented policing, a policing strategy
• Gregorio Luperón International Airport (IATA code), Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
• Poppleton railway station (station code), York, England

See also

• Pop art, a visual art movement
• Popping (disambiguation)
• Pops (disambiguation)