popcorn

About 0.92 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

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

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

   That farm grows popcorn.

3. noun A serving of popcorn.

   I'll have a small popcorn.

4. noun A piece of popcorn.

   She keeps dropping her popcorns.

5. noun A bite-size food preparation made by battering and deep-frying one or more ingredients, most often chicken.

   popcorn chicken

6. noun Entertainment that is, or has the potential to be, popular but is vapid and provides little intellectual or artistic merit.

   The movie was entertaining enough, but it was just popcorn entertainment.

7. noun Entertainment for observers.

   If they get in a fight, I'm just going to sit back and enjoy the popcorn.

8. noun A kind of stitch similar to a bobble.

Similar words

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Often followed by

and in balls is to at or for on

Word family

popcorn chicken popcorn chicken/shrimp popcorn shrimp popcorns