1863. Alex. Smith, Dreamthorp, 133. In the pit, sober people relax themselves, and suck oranges, and quaff ginger-pop.
1871. Morning Advertiser, 11 Sept. Shall the Admirals of England now their former prowess drop, All courage ooze from tarry hands, like fiz from uncorked pop?
1872. Standard, 29 Aug. 'Autumn Manœuvres.' Buying pop in the cheapest and selling it in the dearest market is his trade.
1876. George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, xxxix. I cannot bear people to keep their minds bottled up for the sake of letting them go off with a pop.
1884. Hawley Smart, Post to Finish, 228. I went for this Dancing Master myself, and he don't warrant my calling for pop (Champagne).
1893. Emerson, Signor Lippo, xiv. Well, I don't mind if I do, and old Teapot here can come and have pop, like the little boys.
1887. Henley and Stevenson, Three Plays, 69. Another illusion gone pop.
1893. Milliken, 'Arry Ballads, 71. I'm horf for a pop at the birds.
5. (common).—To pawn; 'to put away': whence pop-shop = a pawnbroker.—Grose (1785); Bee (1823). See Spout.
1837. Lytton, Maltravers, iv. 1. As to the other cloak and shawl, don't be afraid; they shan't go to the pop-shop.
1841. Punch, 1. 77. The eight waistcoats wanted for dinner. Peter ordered to pop accordingly—proceeds 7s. 6d. Invested in a small leg of mutton and half and half.
1851-61. Mayhew, Lond. Lab., &c., i. 530. Knew of such a book to a sartinty, because a young 'oman took one to pop for an old 'oman what was on the spree.
1866. Orchestra, 10 Nov. The next day the gentleman transports it to a pawnbroker's, and, as cognoscenti have it, pops it.
1880. G. R. Sims, Three Brass Balls, Pledge x. I am not at all sure that all congregations would act so kindly and thoughtfully as did the Bishop Ortonites if they found out that their parson was in the habit of popping his surplice.
1886-96. Marshall, 'Pomes' from the Pink 'Un ['Nixes in the Kick'], 63. With his nibs the luck was out, for he popped it up the spout.
1889. Answers, 13 July, 105, 1. Having, unfortunately, a very extended acquaintance with the pop shop, my account . . . may be relied upon as being accurate.
1891. Harry Fludyer, iii. When your aunt Sophia was with us last week it kept on yelling something about 'the pop-shop round the corner' and 'paying your uncle a visit,' which I did not understand.
1898. Hume, Hagar, 54. Rosa, to get rid of the necklace until the affair of the murder was blown over, might pawn it . . . so I sent a printed slip to all the pop-shops in London.
1900. Kipling, Stalky & Co., 44. 'Confound you! You haven't been popping my Sunday bags, then?' 'Keep your hair on. It's only your watch . . . got 13s. 7d. Here's the ticket.'
6. (American University).—To get an advantage.
Other Colloquialisms, mostly with the same root-idea, are:—To pop off saws = to babble; to pop upon (in, into, above or out) = (1) to come, put, spring, or thrust suddenly into view or place, and (2) to offer abruptly; to pop with the mouth = to smack the lips; to pop one out (or off) = to deprive, with little or no warning; to pop off with = to put off (or aside); to pop the question (or to pop) = to offer marriage; to pop up (or down) = to appear (or disappear) suddenly; to pop off = (1) to die (also to pop off the hooks—see Pop and Hook), and (2) to make a sudden exit; to pop it in = to effect intromission; to pop it on = to increase a demand: as chance offers.
