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joypop

joypop verb: to use drugs recreationally without becoming addicted.

Verb

joypop (third-person singular simple present joypops, present participle joypopping, simple past and past participle joypopped)

  1. (slang) To use drugs recreationally without becoming addicted.
    • Cozy found it was easier than he had expected to introduce the subject of joy popping at parties. He found that instead of steering shy of drugs, some youngsters were challenged by the taboos set up against them and considered their use real smart.1956, Frank Kane, Key Witness, page 137

Forms of joypop

third-person singular presentjoypops
present participlejoypopping
past participlejoypopped
pastjoypopped

Origin of joypop

From joy + pop.

Words formed from joypop

Questions about joypop

What does joypop mean?
Joypop means to use drugs recreationally without becoming addicted.
What part of speech is joypop?
Joypop is a verb.
What is the past tense of joypop?
The past tense of joypop is joypopped.

Words near joypop in the dictionary

  1. joyously
  2. joyousness
  3. joyousnesses
  4. joypad
  5. joypads
  6. joypop
  7. joypopped
  8. joypopper
  9. joypoppers
  10. joypopping
  11. joypops

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Adapted from Wiktionary: joypop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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