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Pop off

pop off is slang for to die. But has it got a variant form like "go off pop"? Found in a translation of a Chekhov story.
  

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[nq:1]pop off is slang for to die. But has it got a variant form like "go off pop"? [/nq] No, that might mean that someone quit drinking soft drinks.

  • [nq:1]pop off is slang for to die.
  • But has it got a variant form like "go off pop"?
  • [/nq] No, that might mean that someone quit drinking soft drinks.
  • Well, it could.
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[nq:1]pop off is slang for to die. But has it got a variant form like "go off pop"? Found in a translation of a Chekhov story.[/nq]
No, that might mean that someone quit drinking soft drinks. Well, it could.
Skitt (in SF Bay Area) http://www.geocities.com/opus731/ I speak En
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Around here it is more common used to mean "quick trip". "I am going to pop off to the corner store."
There must be three thousand ways to say "die",
but "pop off" is not one of them for me.
Richard Maurer To reply, remove half
Sunnyvale, California of a homonym of a synonym for also.
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[nq:1]pop off is slang for to die. But has it got a variant form like "go off pop"? Found in a translation of a Chekhov story.[/nq]
To go off pop means to launch an angry tirade.
To pop off means to pop your clogs.

Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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[nq:2]pop off is slang for to die. But has it ... off pop"? Found in a translation of a Chekhov story.[/nq]
[nq:1]To go off pop means to launch an angry tirade. To pop off means to pop your clogs.[/nq]
'pop' is also an all-purpose medical term in the UK. I think there must be a special lecture at medical school :
Just pop onto the trolley
Pop back into bed
I'm going to pop thes
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[nq:2]To go off pop means to launch an angry tirade. To pop off means to pop your clogs.[/nq]
[nq:1]'pop' is also an all-purpose medical term in the UK. I think there must be a special lecture at medical ... afternoon (1) That was actually in a room in the Nurses' Home but I'm counting it (2) So was that[/nq]
Did you get a chance to pop a nurse between (1) and (2)?
[nq:1]And yet they i
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Okay, so this one time? In band camp? "Skitt" was all, like:
[nq:2]And yet they insist on saying 'I'm going to lance your boil'[/nq]
[nq:1]Ouch![/nq]
Still, I suppose it's preferable to the converse..r

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