popcorn

CEFRA2

/ˈpɒp.kɔːn/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Dry corn that becomes white and fluffy when heated.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A piece of popcorn.

Examples

  • The more popcorn you eat, the more you want.

  • Pour melted butter over the popcorn.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Also pronounced

  • /ˈpɔːp.kɔː(r)n/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A serving of popcorn.

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

  3. A type of corn or maize with a hard outer hull that, along with the type of starch it contains, makes it suitable for popping.

More examples

In context

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

  • 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.

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Origin

noun

Short for popped corn. By surface analysis, pop + corn.