popeye
Speech parts
1. popeye - Noun
2. Popeye - Proper noun
Meaning
A tough cartoon sailor, full name Popeye the Sailor, characterized by bulging forearm muscles, a squinty eye, and an affinity for spinach.
A nickname for a person who has attributes of the cartoon character.
(medicine) Exophthalmia.
Coryphaenoides cinereus (syn. Macrurus cinereus), a deep sea fish.
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Examples
According to “Popeye,” one of Escobar’s late hitmen, “blabbermouth” General Jaime Ruiz, the former commander of the 4th Brigade, helped the drug lord escape.
But, as far as I’m concerned, it’s also about this bar Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle (Hackman) shakes down at about the half-hour mark.
A boy named Elvis, about the same age as Popeye, is among the stranded clan, a fearless, cussing, adventurer of the first degree.
And get this, it’s also the first hand-drawn Popeye cartoon in 25 years.
He incorporated a "hauntingly repeated melody" in The Long Goodbye (1973), and employed Harry Nilsson and Van Dyke Parks to score Popeye (1980).
Among the cartoons contained in this stupendous 2-Disc, 72-Episode volume are all of the Paramount TV Popeye cartoons."