popcorn
A snack food made from corn or maize kernels popped by dry heating.
Example
“My friends and I ordered popcorn during the interval of the movie.”
Other meanings
A serving of popcorn.
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.
A kind of
- corn
Related words
- popcornless
- popcornlike
- piss in the popcorn
- grab the popcorn
- popcorn ceiling
- popcorn chicken
- popcorn lung
- popcorn movie
- popcorn noise
- popcorn pisser
- popcorn flower
- popcorn reading
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “popcorn” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.