Pop or POP may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Pop music Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.S. Frith, W. Straw, and J. Street, eds, ''iarchive:cambridgecompani00frit, The Cambridge Companion to Pop ...

, a musical genre

Artists

* POP, a Japanese idol group now known as Gang Parade * Pop! (British group), a UK pop group * Pop! featuring Angie Hart, an Australian band

Albums

* ''Pop'' (Gas album) * ''Pop'' (Joachim Witt album) * ''Pop'' (Mao Abe album) * ''Pop'' (Same Difference album) * ''Pop'' (Tones on Tail album) * ''Pop'' (U2 album) * ''Pop'', an album by Topi Sorsakoski and Agents * '' P.O.P'', The Mad Capsule Markets album * '' Pop! The First 20 Hits'', an album by English duo Erasure

EPs

* ''P.O.P.'' (EP), a 2024 EP by Marina Satti

Songs

* "Pop" (NSYNC song), a 2001 song * "Pop!" (Nayeon song), a song from the album ''Im Nayeon'' * "Pop", a song by A.R. Kane * "Pop", a song by Ari Lennox from '' Shea Butter Baby'' * "Pop", a song by La Oreja de Van Gogh from '' El viaje de Copperpot'' * "Pop", a song by Death Grips from '' No Love Deep Web'' * "Pop!", a song from '' The Wedding Singer'' musical

Periodicals

* ''Pop'' (fashion magazine), a British publication * '' Pop Magazine'', a sports magazine

Television

* Pop (American TV channel), formerly TVGN * Pop (British and Irish TV channel), for children * Pop (Slovenian TV channel), Slovenia * Pop (Pakistani TV channel), for children * Pop (Italy), for children

Toys

* POP! vinyl figurines from Funko * Princess of Power, Mattel toys

Video games

* '' Prince of Persia'', video game franchise * ''Pop'' (video game)

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* PoP!, the fictional band in '' Music and Lyrics'' *

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, trading cards

Commerce

* Pop, slang for pawning goods with a pawnbroker * Pay on production * Point of purchase, used often in retail * Proof of principle * Proof-of-payment, a fare collection approach

Organizations

* Eton Society, nickname * Pencils of Promise, a charity * Pop, a US company owned by Advance Publications Inc.

Places

* Gregorio Luperón International Airport (IATA code POP), Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic * Pop, a tributary of the river Jijia in eastern Romania * Pop, Uzbekistan, a town in Namangan Region, Uzbekistan * Poppleton railway station (station code), York, England

People

* Pop (nickname) * Pop (surname), a Romanian surname * Pop Chalee (1906–1993), American painter, muralist, performer and singer born Merina Lujan * Pop Harukaze, a.k.a. Caitlyn Goodwyn, a fictional character from the anime/manga series '' Ojamajo Doremi'' *

Iggy Pop James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally as Iggy Pop, is an American singer, musician, songwriter, actor and radio broadcaster. He was the vocalist and lyricist of proto-punk band the Stooges, who were formed in 1 ...

(born 1947), American musician * Jimmy Pop (born 1972), American musician *

Pop Smoke Bashar Barakah Jackson (July 20, 1999 – February 19, 2020), known professionally as Pop Smoke, was an American rapper. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York City, he rose to fame with the release of his 2019 singles "Welcome to the Party (P ...

(1999–2020), American rapper

Science and technology

Computing

* Operation removing element from a

stack (abstract data type) In computer science, a stack is an abstract data type that serves as a collection (abstract data type), collection of elements with two main operations: * Push, which adds an element to the collection, and * Pop, which removes the most recent ...

Package on package Package on a package (PoP) is an integrated circuit packaging method to vertically combine ball grid array (BGA) packages for discrete logic and Semiconductor memory, memory. Two or more packages are installed atop each other, i.e. stacked, with a ...

, IC packaging * Point of presence, a demarcation point between communicating entities * POP and POP3, Internet e-mail

Post Office Protocol In computing, the Post Office Protocol (POP) is an application-layer Internet standard protocol used by e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail from a mail server. Today, POP version 3 (POP3) is the most commonly used version. Together with IMAP, ...

s * POP-1 POP-2

POP-11 POP-11 is a Reflective programming, reflective, Dynamic compilation, incrementally compiled programming language with many of the features of an interpreted language. It is the core language of the Poplog Computer programming, programming system ...

, programming languages * Pop! OS, a Linux distribution

Other uses in science and technology

* Pop (physics), sixth derivative of position * Parallel Ocean Program, an ocean circulation model * Paroxypropione, P.O.P. * Persistent organic pollutant * Probability of precipitation, in weather forecasting * Progestogen-only pill, a contraceptive * Pelvic organ prolapse, a gynecological condition * Blind rivet *

Plaster of Paris Plaster is a building material used for the protective or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements. In English, "plaster" usually means a material used for the interiors of buildings, while "re ...

, plaster made from dehydrated gypsum * Pop, a recording noise from plosives, see pop filter

Sport

Pop (professional wrestling) Professional wrestling has accrued a considerable amount of jargon throughout its existence. Much of it stems from the industry's origins in the days of Traveling carnival, carnivals and circuses. In the past, professional wrestlers used such term ...

, a crowd cheer * POP Championship (Princess of Pro-Wrestling), Japan

Other uses

* POP (Point of Purchase typeface), in Japanese Kanji * Pop (ghost), in Thai folklore * Pop (train) * The first month of the Haabʼ in the Mayan calendar * Pacific Ocean Park, an amusement park * Problem-oriented policing * Pop, a truncation of the word ''popular'', e.g.,

popular culture Popular culture (also called pop culture or mass culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of cultural practice, practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as popular art

f. pop art F is the sixth letter of the Latin alphabet. F may also refer to: Science and technology Mathematics * F or f, the number 15 (number), 15 in hexadecimal and higher positional systems * ''p'F'q'', the hypergeometric function * F-distributi ...

or mass art, sometimes contraste ...

→ pop culture * Pop, dialect for

soft drink A soft drink (see #Terminology, § Terminology for other names) is a class of non-alcoholic drink, usually (but not necessarily) Carbonated water, carbonated, and typically including added Sweetness, sweetener. Flavors used to be Natural flav ...

* Pop, an informal term for a

father A father is the male parent of a child. Besides the paternal bonds of a father to his children, the father may have a parental, legal, and social relationship with the child that carries with it certain rights and obligations. A biological fat ...

or occasionally a grandfather * Pop., an abbreviation for

population Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the resident population size within a given jurisdiction. The term is also applied to non-human animals, microorganisms, and pl ...

* Pop Mie, an instant cup noodle brand which is a sub-brand of Indomie, first introduced in Indonesia in 1991