English Vocabulary & Slang: POP!

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"Ha ha ha ha ha, I'll pop a cap in your ass, ha ha ha ha ha."

Want to learn some slang?

Yeah, you do.

The slang we're going to learn today is "pop".

So, maybe you know a kind of music called "pop music".

Mm-hmm.

Do you know that "pop" actually means "popular"?

So when you think, "Oh, I really like pop music", that actually means that you like

popular music.

Maybe you know this one, "I'm thirsty.

I wish I had a soda, but sometimes we call it 'pop'."

Do you have a favorite pop, cola, maybe a little fruity drink for you?

In some parts of America, they say "soda", and some other parts, they say "pop".

What are you going to say, "soda" or "pop"?

I just am going to pop in an egg here, so when we're cooking something, it just means

to put in.

So, I'm just going to pop in, or I'm just going to put in the definition.

I'm just going to pop it right in there.

You won't even know it's there.

It means to put something in fast.

"Oh, but not like that.

Oh, dirty mind."

She just popped another one out.

What did she do?

This means she had a baby.

Do you have a baby?

So, to pop another one out means to have another baby.

They are only five bucks or five dollars a pop.

This means they're only five dollars each.

So, you might go to the store and someone's like, "How much are those?"

They say, "Five bucks a pop.

You want one?"

It means they're only five dollars each.

Pop-up shop.

Pop-up shop.

Pop-up shop.

Pop-up shop.

A pop-up shop is a store that is not normally there, but it appears out of nowhere.

"Oh my god, it's a store."

So, to pop up means to come by surprise.

Are you surprised?

Mm-hmm.

So, a pop-up shop means a store that's only there for a short amount of time.

Do you hate when you're watching something on your computer and all of a sudden an ad

comes on?

They're evil.

Evil ads.

So, what you want to do is you want to install a pop-up blocker, so this blocks the pop-up.

Now, a pop-up means an advertising, advertisement, and we just say "ad".

I'd like to add a pop-up blocker.

Do you know what?

I want to tell you guys something.

My pops is the best.

He is so handsome, like me, and really cool and amazing.

He's got my hair, I have his hair, and that means my father, so my pops actually refers

to my father.

Do you have a father?

Bad son.

Bad subject, isn't it?

His head pops off.

This means that I took my knife, and his head just popped right off.

So, if somebody's head pops off, it really doesn't just pop off, it means that somebody

has to cut it off or slay it off, and if somebody's head pops off, it just means that it came

off very easily.

If you'd like that arranged, call me.

His eye popped out.

Do you know what that means?

It means that somebody's eyeball actually came right out of his eye.

Oh, glorious eyeballs all over.

So, if your eye pops out, it comes out suddenly.

Did you get what I said at the beginning?

I said, "I'll pop a cap in your ass."

This means I'm going to shoot you, and notice I didn't say "your", I said "yo", so this

means "your".

So, if someone offers to pop a cap in your ass, you should maybe, maybe disagree and

say, "Nah, you know what, nah, I'm good, thank you, thanks, no, I don't need it."

He just popped him one right in the eye, right in the eye, right there, just popped him right

in the eye.

This means that he punched him.

It's very violent, this English lesson, isn't it?

It's very violent.

No, this isn't violent.

What about my new hair color?

Do you think it pops with my skin tone?

So, we can say, "That color really pops."

We talk about design, we talk about something that stands out from the crowd.

I don't stand out from the crowd, I don't know why you'd say that.

I just pop up in fun places, and I wear colors that pop.

If you are scared, ha ha ha, that's the purpose.

Speaking English is very scary, especially slang, okay, ha ha.

Ahhhh!!!