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pop tart

pop tart noun: a toaster pastry.

Noun (1)

pop tart (plural pop tarts)

  1. A toaster pastry.
    • Carl Kasell will come to their house and cook his signature dish, breakfast à la Edwards, which is two pop tarts and a Benson and Hedges.2000 January 29, Peter Sagal (host), Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!, National Public Radio

Noun (2)

pop tart (plural pop tarts)

  1. (colloquial) A female pop music performer famed more for her sexuality than for her music.
    • After much effort, she was able to overcome the pop tart label and be taken seriously as a musician.

Noun (3) capitalized: Pop Tart

Pop Tart (plural Pop Tarts)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of pop tart.

Forms of pop tart

pluralpop tarts
alternative formPop Tart
alternative formpoptart
alternative formpop-tart
pluralPop Tarts

Origin of pop tart

A genericization of the brand name Pop-Tarts.

From pop for “popular” and tart for a sexualized woman; a word play on the brand name.

Questions about pop tart

What does pop tart mean?
Pop tart means a toaster pastry.
What part of speech is pop tart?
Pop tart is a noun.
What is the plural of pop tart?
The plural of pop tart is pop tarts.

Words near pop tart in the dictionary

  1. pop songs
  2. pop sox
  3. pop star
  4. pop stars
  5. pop tags
  6. pop tart
  7. pop tarts
  8. pop the cherry
  9. pop the question
  10. pop tune
  11. pop tunes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pop tart (page history and authors); Pop Tart (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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