pop-corn

Noun

popcorn (countable and uncountable, plural popcorns)

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.

   Synonyms:

   maizypop, popmaize

   1. (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.
   2. (countable) A serving of popcorn.
      • I'll have a small popcorn.
   3. (countable, rare) A piece of popcorn.
      • She keeps dropping her popcorns.
   4. (attributive, broadly) A bite-size food preparation made by battering and deep-frying one or more ingredients, most often chicken.
      • popcorn chicken
   5. (attributive, figuratively) 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.

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