Usually means: Heated corn kernels that explode.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. popcorn: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. popcorn: Merriam-Webster
  3. popcorn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. popcorn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. popcorn: Collins English Dictionary
  6. popcorn: Vocabulary.com
  7. Popcorn, popcorn: Wordnik
  8. popcorn: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. popcorn: Wiktionary
  10. popcorn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. popcorn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. popcorn: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. popcorn: Dictionary.com
  14. popcorn: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. popcorn: Rhymezone
  17. popcorn: FreeDictionary.org
  18. popcorn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. popcorn: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. popcorn: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. popcorn -: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  2. Epicurus.com Food Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. POPCORN: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. popcorn: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. POPCORN: Acronym Finder
  3. popcorn: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. popcorn, popcorn, popcorn: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. popcorn: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Popcorn: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

(Note: See popcorning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (chiefly uncountable) A snack food made from corn or maize kernels popped by dry heating.
noun:  (chiefly uncountable) 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.
noun:  (knitting) A kind of stitch similar to a bobble.
noun:  (attributive) A form of brainstorming in which participants call out their ideas immediately, instead of waiting for an assigned turn to speak.
noun:  (humorous) Entertainment for observers.
noun:  A slow Belgian style of soul music popular in the early 1960s.
noun:  A Romanian style of Europop popular in the late 2000s.
verb:  (of a guinea pig or chinchilla) To stand or jump up quickly.
verb:  To pop repeatedly, like popcorn cooking.
verb:  (knitting, rare) To use the popcorn stitch.

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