popcorn

1. (chiefly uncountable) A snack food made from corn or maize kernels popped by dry heating.Examples: "My friends and I ordered popcorn during the interval of the movie."Synonyms: maizypop, popmaizeuncountable

2. (countable) A serving of popcorn.Examples: "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."; "Every Wednesday night is Date Night, and for $10 sweethearts can get two tickets, two popcorns and two sodas."countable

3. (countable, rare) A piece of popcorn.Examples: "Some popcorns silently flicked off like face peelings on his shoe."; "Don’t you feel this is nothing but throwing popcorns before a hungry elephant? This is definitely throwing popcorns before the hungry elephant. This is the imbalance that I wanted to pointed out."; "Sarani threw a few popcorns into her mouth."countablerare

4. (chiefly uncountable) A type of corn or maize with a hard outer hull that, along with the type of starch it contains, makes it suitable for popping.Synonyms: popmaizeuncountable

5. (knitting) A kind of stitch similar to a bobble.Examples: "From the top the sample shows four stitch popcorns, five stitch bobbles, two rows of bells and a central leaf with leaves sloping to the left and right each side."countableuncountable

6. (attributive) A form of brainstorming in which participants call out their ideas immediately, instead of waiting for an assigned turn to speak.Examples: "With the "popcorn" method, all team members in the session spontaneously call out ideas and a facilitator writes them on a flip chart."; "As a way to begin the discussion about God's will, you might want to ask the group to do some "popcorn" brainstorming about the pros and cons of believing that everything that happens is God's will."; "Ask: What Twitter-style hashtag characterizes our community? (Use popcorn brainstorming to elicit responses.)"attributivecountableuncountable