Pop

A pop is an onomatopoeic term for a quick sharp explosion.

Pop or POP could also mean:

Computer science

• Partial-order planning, an agorithm
• Post Office Protocol, Internet protocol used for E-mail
• Pop, an operation on a Stack

Food and drink

• Corn Pops, breakfast cereal
• Pop, carbonated soft drink
• Pop (frozen snack), snack on a stick or in a plastic or cardboard sleeve made from fruit juice or sugared water
• Blow Pops, Tootsie Roll brand
• Caramel Apple Pops, Tootsie Roll brand
• Jiffy Pop, popcorn product
• Pop Secret, well-known brand of popcorn
• Tootsie Pop, hard candy lollipop with a Tootsie Roll filling at its center
• Pop Tarts, a flat rectangular toaster pastry

Entertainment

• Prince of Persia, video game series
• The Planes of Power, expansion pack to the MMORPG EverQuest

Music

• Iggy Pop, American punk rock singer and actor
• Pop (album), 1997 album by U2
• Pop music, type of popular music

Acronym

• A Point of Presence, where two communication interfaces meet.
• The Post Office Protocol, a computer protocol to get electronic mail
• Persistent organic pollutant, a kind of chemical substance
• Progresterone only pill, a contraceptive for women
• One of two operations that can be done on a stacĸ; pop removes the top element. The other one is called push, and puts on an element.

Other

• Pop (television channel), children's television channel in the UK
• Snap, Crackle and Pop, the three animated mascots of Rice Krispies cereal
• Pop, the male parent or grandparent of a child
• Pop, the first month of in the Maya Haab' calendar
• Pop art, visual artistic movement that emerged in the late 1950s
• Pop culture, the vernacular culture that prevails in any given society
• Pop icon, popular celebrity
• Point of Purchase, retail display design for retailers and brand owners.