Entry · catalog no. 4314
pop out
/ /pɑːp aʊt/ /pop OWT
verb · nationwide · 2010s
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1.
To appear in person, to show up — often somewhere you were not expected, and with visible confidence. To pop out is to be physically present and seen, whether for a party, a moment, or a confrontation.
“Said he might pop out to the function if the night was right.”
Origin & Attribution
African American Vernacular English, long used for simply showing up, carried wide by hip-hop and social media in the late 2010s and early 2020s. Kendrick Lamar's Juneteenth 2024 concert "The Pop Out" put the phrase on a marquee.
2010s
AAVE for showing up, carried by hip-hop
2024
Kendrick Lamar's "The Pop Out" concert
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
Nationwide / diaspora
nationwide · 2010s
Spoken by
Black American and hip-hop speakers
$POPOUTThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Rising11 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
82/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
First used
2015
in the culture
Cultural energy indexed from documented usage, search interest, and citation frequency. The recorded date is the archive’s permanent point of record.
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Citations & Sources
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Kendrick Lamar, "The Pop Out — Ken & Friends" (Juneteenth)
2024
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+ Cite a sourceRap Dictionary, "pop out"
2010s
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