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popcorn

Speech parts

1. popcorn - Noun

2. popcorn - Verb

Meaning

small kernels of corn exploded by heat

corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat

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That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice. Garth Brooks

When I was in college, we used to take a popcorn popper, because that was the only thing they would let us use in the dorm, and we would fry squirrels in a popcorn popper in the dorm room. Mike Huckabee

The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves. W. C. Fields

I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business. Orville Redenbacher

We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant. Orville Redenbacher

Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them. Orville Redenbacher

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