popcorn
IPA: pˈɑpkɔrn
noun
- (chiefly uncountable) A snack food made from corn/maize kernels popped by dry heating.
- (chiefly uncountable) A type of maize with a hard outer hull that, along with the type of starch it contains, makes it suitable for popping.
- (knitting) A kind of stitch similar to a bobble.
- (humorous, by extension) Entertainment.
verb
- (of a guinea pig or chinchilla) To stand or jump up quickly.
- To pop repeatedly, like popcorn cooking.
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Examples of "popcorn" in Sentences
- Popcorn needs a little butter.
- The serving of popcorn is not encouraged.
- I'll bring the beer, you bring the popcorn.
- Are you at a health risk from microwave popcorn
- Popcorn and soft drinks are available in the foyer.
- Totally unhealthy popcorn is part of the experience.
- This particular popcorn is Stuart Woods novels, thrillers.
- "Some guys are what I call popcorn players," Saunders said.
- Popcorn is recalled because of possible listeria contamination.
- The popcorn is coated with toffee and rolled in crushed peanuts.
- Jerry dives into the popcorn and munches it happily as the cartoon ends.
- A major concern in the early history of the popcorn industry was packaging.
- Anyone else agree that we already know movie popcorn is unhealthy but we love it anyway?
- Johanna describes Miss Bancho as “brain popcorn” — that is, “something entertaining [...]
- Twelve times more than what you'd pay at the market, that's the markup for popcorn at the movies.
- I finally started making my own plain popcorn using the brown paper bag method and I've been enjoying it.
- Microwave popcorn is not all it could be, at least compared to its stove-top and popcorn machine brethren.
- Etc: Made from a blend of Japanese green tea and roasted, puffed brown rice, genmaicha is sometimes called "popcorn tea" thanks to its unusual appearance.
- I have done this with butter, it get's the air good and moist just like water, plus, when the popcorn is done cooking, you have extra butter to pour over the popcorn. mmmm.
- TEAM: The only area of foam loss that we saw that was not expected, and by expected we lose some what we call the popcorn foam in that inter tank region between the two tanks, the locks tank and the hydrogen tank.