a pop

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as in each
for each one We found a food truck selling ice cream cones for $2 a pop.

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Recent Examples of a pop Nishaan began as a pop-up at the weekly open-air food festival Smorgasburg and went on to win season 18 of The Great Food Truck Race. — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Nov. 2026 Because the launch model lacks a pop-up roof for standing up, KombiLife pushes the kitchen outside for better ergonomics and dedicates the passenger side to a tall storage console with slim shelf on top and storage cubbies below. — New Atlas, 3 Nov. 2026 Inside, all 2,000-plus seats sold out at $10 a pop—the equivalent of about $240 today. — Serena Turner, Vanity Fair, 3 Nov. 2026 During training, Roseberry would spend the first half of his run talking (and sometimes bickering) with Fins, only to reward himself with a pop-heavy playlist for the second half (Olivia Rodrigo, Taylor Swift, and Rosalía were in heavy rotation). — Max Berlinger, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2026 In one recent short video, Hoffman dances to a pop song, Nina Nox’s Good Without You, and closes by giving a middle finger to the camera and lip-syncing. — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 2 Nov. 2026 Styles is not a pop star who wants to reveal himself in his lyrics, like Taylor Swift does, or who wants to experiment too fiercely with genre, like Beyoncé does. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2026 The Filipino Table is owned by Lee Ann Torrecarion who also oversees Kuya’s Inasal Express, a pop-up restaurant that operated at 9120 Elk Grove Blvd. — Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 2 Nov. 2026 This pick, for example, adds a pop of color to contrast the black jeans and booties, while the purple hue nods to current trends without being too obvious. — India Roby, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2026

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“A pop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/a%20pop. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026.

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