ˌginger-ˈpop
[f. ginger + pop n.1]
1. A colloquial term for ginger-beer 1.
| 1827 Blackw. Mag. XXI. 829 Sauterne, swizzle, imperial, ginger-pop, soda-water, or lemonade. 1852 R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour ix. (1893) 44 Champagne, which went ‘pop, pop, popping—and bang, bang, banging’, just as ginger-pop goes between the acts on a hot night at a theatre. 1882 Society 11 Nov. 22/2 Let..the toasts be drunk in filtered water, or, at most, ‘ginger-pop’. |
| Comb. 1859 Cornwallis New World I. 5, Two ginger-pop looking fountains playing with a most sickly effort. |
2. slang. A policeman.
| 1887 ‘Dagonet’ in Referee 6 Nov. 7/3 Ere her bull-dog I could stop, She had called a ‘ginger-pop’. |