popcorn

Definition

A snack food made from corn or maize kernels popped by dry heating.

Etymology

Short for popped corn. By surface analysis, pop + corn.

Example Sentences

• "My friends and I ordered popcorn during the interval of the movie."
• "Warner Bros has offered the two executives less than dollars 1m as an out-of-court settlement, a sum dismissed by Mr [Pierce] O'Donnell as 'two popcorns and two Cokes'."
• "When we went to Astoria, to see 'Drive Me Crazy,' they gave you one popcorn and the other one was free. I asked her if she wanted to eat mine, but she said there was so much popcorn, she was going to get sick."