noun.
A form of urban dance originating in California in the late 1970s, involving rhythmic contractions of the dancer's muscles to accent the beat, usually performed to funk music.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
The act of smearing the face with white lead (ceruse).
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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noun.
a sharp explosive sound as from a gunshot or drawing a cork
Word Usage
"In this context, the term popping describes clustered balls or bubbles of interspersed conduit energies that abruptly pop up and down the same way corn reshapes and redefines itself when confined in a hot container."