popcorn

1. (uncountable)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.

   corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat

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

   (uncountable)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. (countable)A serving of popcorn.

   I'll have a small popcorn.

4. (countable, rare)A piece of popcorn.

   She keeps dropping her popcorns.

5. (attributive, broadly, countable, uncountable)A bite-size food preparation made by battering and deep-frying one or more ingredients, most often chicken.

   popcorn chicken

   Last night we had popcorn chicken.

6. (attributive, countable, figuratively, uncountable)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.

   popcorn movies

7. (countable, figuratively, humorous, uncountable)Entertainment for observers.

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

8. (countable, uncountable)A kind of stitch similar to a bobble.

9. (attributive, countable, uncountable)A form of brainstorming in which participants call out their ideas immediately, instead of waiting for an assigned turn to speak.

10. (countable, uncountable)A slow Belgian style of soul music popular in the early 1960s.

11. (countable, uncountable)A Romanian style of Europop popular in the late 2000s.

12. (countable, uncountable)A jump straight up with all four feet off the ground.

1. Tom ate all of the popcorn.

   Том з'їв увесь попкорн. — deniko

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

   Чим більше їсиш попкорна, тим більше його хочеться. — Oleksandr_Tahayev

   ruЧем больше попкорна ты ешь, тем больше его хочется. — loins

   deJe mehr Puffmais man isst, desto mehr will man. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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3. This popcorn tastes stale. I wonder when it was popped.

   Цей попкорн на смак несвіжий. Цікаво, коли його приготували. — Ahha

   ruУ этого попкорна несвежий вкус. Странно, когда он был приготовлен. — corvard

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4. It's probably healthier to eat popcorn than it is to eat potato chips.

   Імовірно, попкорн більш здорова їжа, ніж картопляні чіпси. — deniko

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5. Tom doesn't like popcorn.

   Тому не подобається попкорн. — deniko

   ruТом не любит попкорн. — marafon

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