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Pop 2 (mixtape)
Pop 2 is Charli XCX's fourth mixtape, released 15 December 2017 on Asylum/Atlantic, executive produced by A. G. Cook, second 2017 mixtape after Number 1 Angel, and widely regarded as a blueprint of hyperpop.
Pop art
Pop art: 1950s–1970s art movement, also called Pop Art, born in Britain's Independent Group and named by critic Lawrence Alloway; Warhol, Lichtenstein, and peers turned advertising, comics, and consumer goods into fine art via silkscreen and Ben-Day dots.
Pop Ćira and Pop Spira
Pop Ćira and Pop Spira is an 1894 humorous novel by the Serbian writer Stevan Sremac about the rivalry of two Orthodox priests' families in Vojvodina.
Pop Culture Jeopardy!
Pop Culture Jeopardy! is a Jeopardy! spinoff game show with three-person teams answering pop culture trivia for a $300,000 prize, hosted by Colin Jost, premiering December 2024 on Prime Video and moving to Netflix for season 2 in 2026.
Pop Evil
Pop Evil is an American hard rock band formed in 2001 in North Muskegon, Michigan, by vocalist Leigh Kakaty. Known for post-grunge radio hits "Trenches" and "Waking Lions," both Mainstream Rock chart-toppers, with albums through 2025's What Remains.
Pop Goes the Weasel
Pop Goes the Weasel is an English nursery rhyme and dance tune first published in the early 1850s, a Victorian dance craze, later a musical-chairs-style children's game and jack-in-the-box melody; its title phrase is most likely nonsense.
Pop icon
Pop icon (popular or pop culture icon): a person, fictional character, or object widely recognized as a symbol of a culture or era, spanning celebrities like Michael Jackson and characters like Mickey Mouse, Darth Vader, and Hello Kitty, defined by image distinctness, durability, reproducibility, and tragic-dramatic narrative.
Pop Idol
Pop Idol was a British ITV singing competition created by Simon Fuller, airing 2001–2003; Will Young won its 2002 final and it launched the global Idol franchise.
Pop Kaun?
Pop Kaun? (Baap Kaun) is a 2023 Hindi comedy-drama web series created and directed by Farhad Samji for Disney+ Hotstar, starring Kunal Kemmu as an adopted politician's son searching for his biological father.
Pop literature
Pop literature (Popliteratur) is a current in German-language writing that takes its material from pop music, brands, and youth culture, beginning with Rolf Dieter Brinkmann in 1968.
Pop Mart
Pop Mart (泡泡玛特) is a Beijing-based designer-toy company founded by Wang Ning in 2010, known for blind-box collectible figures such as Molly and Labubu; it listed in Hong Kong in 2020.
Pop music
Pop music: mainstream, wide-audience popular music shaped by publishers, record companies, and copyright; three stylistic revolutions (1964, 1983, 1991); third-largest U.S. streaming genre.
Pop Muzik
Pop Muzik is a 1979 synth-pop single by M, the alias of British musician Robin Scott, from the album New York London Paris Munich. It hit No. 2 in the UK and No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in November 1979.
Pop rock
Pop rock is a music genre that blends rock's rhythmic energy and instrumentation with pop's catchy melodies, concise song structures, and polished production, dating to the mid-1960s.
Pop Rocks
Pop Rocks is the original popping candy brand, hard candy gasified with carbon dioxide at about 600 psi, invented in 1956 by General Foods chemist William A. Mitchell and sold since the mid-1970s, now owned by Zeta Espacial.
Pop screamo
Pop screamo, also called mall screamo, is a 2000s post-hardcore subgenre fusing screamo, emo pop, and metalcore, with screamed verses and clean choruses, peaking commercially around 2004 with bands like the Used and Thursday.
Pop Smoke
Pop Smoke (Bashar Barakah Jackson, 1999–2020) was a Brooklyn rapper, face of New York drill, with hits 'Welcome to the Party' and 'Dior'; killed at 20 in a Hollywood Hills robbery, with two posthumous albums topping Billboard.
Pop Team Epic (ポプテピピック)
Pop Team Epic (ポプテピピック, Poputepipikku) is a 4-koma absurdist gag manga by bkub, serialized on Manga Life Win since 2014, starring Popuko and Pipimi; its 2018 anime aired each episode twice with different voice actors.
POP tennis
POP tennis, formerly paddle tennis, is an 1898 American racquet sport on a 15.24 x 6.096 m court with a solid paddle, low-compression ball, one underarm serve, and tennis scoring, governed by the IPTA.
Pop the Balloon or Find Love
Pop the Balloon or Find Love is a YouTube dating series created by Bolia Matundu and host Arlette Amuli, launched December 7, 2023, where singles pop red balloons to reject suitors; it passed 100 million views and spawned a canceled Netflix live adaptation.
Pop Warner
Pop Warner, born Glenn Scobey Warner, was an American football coach who won four national championships and introduced innovations including the single-wing formation and numbered jerseys.
Pop Will Eat Itself
Pop Will Eat Itself (PWEI), English alternative rock band formed 1986 in Stourbridge; grebo scene act turned sample-driven industrial rock, known for This Is the Day...This Is the Hour..., the 1993 top-ten hit "Get the Girl! Kill the Baddies!" and the 2025 album Delete Everything.
Pop Winans
Pop Winans (David Glenn Winans Sr., 1934-2009) was an American gospel singer and manager, patriarch of the Winans family; he managed the quartet the Winans and recorded as Mom & Pop Winans with wife Delores.
Pop-PK/PD trial
Pop-PK/PD trial (NCT03440216), a Université Catholique de Louvain clinical trial measuring total and free concentrations of temocillin, ceftriaxone, and meropenem in ICU patients stratified by renal function.
Pop-punk
Pop-punk: punk rock fused with pop hooks and power chords, originating with the Ramones, Buzzcocks and Undertones in the late 1970s, breaking mainstream with Green Day's Dookie and The Offspring's Smash in 1994, peaking with blink-182, and revived in the 2020s by Machine Gun Kelly.
POP-REMIND trial
The POP-REMIND trial, also called the POP study, is a French prospective multicenter cohort study run by the REMIND group on postoperative recurrence after ileal Crohn's disease resection.
Pop-Schlager
Pop-Schlager, also written Popschlager, is the modern, pop-produced form of German-language Schlager with bass-heavy, beat-driven production comparable to mainstream pop; its leading exponents include Helene Fischer, Vanessa Mai, and Beatrice Egli.
Pop-Tarts
Pop-Tarts: Kellogg's (now Kellanova) shelf-stable toaster pastry launched September 1964 in Cleveland in four unfrosted flavors, developed by Bill Post's team in about four months and named after the Pop Art movement.
Pop-up ad
A pop-up ad is an online advertisement in a new browser window over the page being viewed, invented by Ethan Zuckerman at Tripod.com in the mid-1990s.
Pop! OS
Pop!OS, also known as Pop! operating system, is a Linux distribution from the American computer maker System76, built on Ubuntu and first released in 2017 for developers, scientists, and makers.