Talk:pop off

Some lewd sense, or “to doff”

2017 November 26, “Rediscovering Oswald”, in Animation Magazine‎^[1]:

That has been lost in a large part in today’s contemporary animated films that are heavy on humanoid characters. It would be unsavory to dismember a human character, but seeing Oswald pop off his lower leg and foot, kiss it, then rub it on his head as a “lucky rabbit’s foot” and reattaching it is hilarious.

2018 April 15, “Love Me”‎^[2]performed by Trak:

Sometimes I gota hold my thoughts before they start running

Let em out, pop off, then we start bugging

All we do is push up on each other’s buttons

(where “to bug” probably also has senses missing)

I have been sent a tweet in a screenshot that goes as follows: “There’s a moment felt by all women when we spend enough time with other women, a wrenching salivary thirst to pop off eachother’s shoes and examine our intricate storied feet. Its a vestigial grooming instinct common in Ashkenazim that mostly means I'm the weird girl who yanks off my fearful friend's flats just to critique their pedi.” (With the caption that footfetishes have been invented by the Jews).

Compare also to bop. Urban Dictionary suggests “to pop off” could mean a “hand job“, but it looks like it means “to take off the clothing item to perform a sexual act”.

Here apparently in a non-sexual sense meaning “to take the skis off, as a clothing item”:

1998, Skiing, number December, page 90:

The guys jostle each other in the dwindling queue and try to pop off each other's skis like my brother and I used to do when we were 12 and and 13.

@-sche, Equinox? Fay Freak (talk) 16:18, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

See pop verb "to place (something) (somewhere); to move or position (something) with a short movement"; so you could potentially pop off, pop into, pop through, pop out, etc. Equinox ◑ 21:07, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

Possible missing video-game sense

Glossary of video game terms has this:

• pop off: "Used mostly in the context of esports competitions or video game streaming, a gamer is said to "pop off" when they stand up abruptly from their chair in celebration or frustration, after moments of extreme tension."

But other sources (browsing around Reddit etc.) have quite different explanations, suggesting that it describes certain states within the game (great success, or generally a lot of things happening, etc.) without reference to the human player or their chair. So I'm pretty sceptical. (Of course, it's also British slang meaning to disappear or go out briefly, e.g. shopping, but I think we already cover that.) Equinox ◑ 04:42, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

I'm fairly familiar with popoff as a noun in a similar sense from watching videos about speedrunning. A popoff is a celebratory reaction to finishing a speedrun, regardless of whether they get up from their chair (never made that connection, though it might be implied and I didn't pick up).--Simplificationalizer (talk) 01:11, 20 January 2021 (UTC)