pop off

Example Sentences

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“There’s a lot of guys that you may look at their height, weight, speed and it may not pop off the paper, but football isn’t played on paper.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

That’s what they call them because they typically take a while to get to the action and to really pop off.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2025

“Hiii, oh my god, the fit is fitting, pop off king!” she says at the start of a recent video that has over 200,000 likes.

From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2024

Lambert recalled putting the lock ring in place and said he had never known it to pop off or disengage.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 5, 2023

Nobody understood how a foot could pop off like that, or how Roz could remain calm.

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown