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| NOUN: | A sudden sharp, explosive noise: bang, bark, clap, crack, explosion, rat-a-tat-tat, report, snap. See SOUNDS. | | VERB: | 1. To come open or fly apart suddenly and violently, as from internal pressure: blow1 (out), burst, explode. Slang : bust. See EXPLOSION. 2. To make a sudden sharp, explosive noise: bang, bark, clap, crack, snap. See SOUNDS. 3. To deliver a powerful blow to suddenly and sharply: bash, catch, clout, hit, knock, slam, slog, slug3, smash, smite, sock, strike, swat, thwack, whack, wham, whop. Informal : biff, bop, clip1, wallop. Slang : belt, conk, paste. Idioms: let someone have it, sock it to someone. See ATTACK, STRIKE. | | PHRASAL VERB: | pop in To go to or seek out the company of in order to socialize: call, come by, come over, drop by, drop in, look in, look up, run in, see, stop (by or in), visit. Idioms: pay a visit. See SEEK. pop off Informal. To cease living: decease, demise, depart, die, drop, expire, go, pass away, pass (on), perish, succumb. Slang : check out, croak, kick in, kick off. Idioms: bite the dust, breathe one's last, cash in, give up the ghost, go to one's grave, kick the bucket, meet one's end (or Maker) , pass on to the Great Beyond, turn up one's toes. See LIVE.
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