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  • noun informal grandfather
  • noun UK, slang, dated A girl.

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Examples

  • We thought he was the tight-lipped, pap-menacing boffin who wrote The Catcher in the Rye, but it turns out that he was a media popsy who was desperate to make contact with people and write books apart from The Catcher in the Rye.

    Tom Payne: Salinger Courted Fame After All Tom Payne 2011

  • We thought he was the tight-lipped, pap-menacing boffin who wrote The Catcher in the Rye, but it turns out that he was a media popsy who was desperate to make contact with people and write books apart from The Catcher in the Rye.

    Tom Payne: Salinger Courted Fame After All Tom Payne 2011

  • We thought he was the tight-lipped, pap-menacing boffin who wrote The Catcher in the Rye, but it turns out that he was a media popsy who was desperate to make contact with people.

    Tom Payne: Salinger Courted Fame After All Tom Payne 2011

  • We thought he was the tight-lipped, pap-menacing boffin who wrote The Catcher in the Rye, but it turns out that he was a media popsy who was desperate to make contact with people.

    Tom Payne: Salinger Courted Fame After All Tom Payne 2011

  • And there was this ... popsy ... dressed in tattered lingerie with mascara smeared around her eyes writhing on the floor and feeling herself up.

    Pamela Redmond Satran: Why I Can Believe Madonna is Turning 50 2008

  • I want Mister Reformation kept distracted, preferably out in the garden with a little Spanish popsy.

    In the Garden of Iden 1997

  • "That she'd end up as somebody's popsy," she said.

    Futures Imperfect Willis, Connie 1994

  • I'd been doing a paste-up for him, digitizing his studio exec boss's popsy into a River Phoenix movie.

    Futures Imperfect Willis, Connie 1994

  • But just in time for a little popsy, and if she was wide-eyed enough to believe she could make it in the movies, it ought to be a piece of cake getting her up to my room.

    Futures Imperfect Willis, Connie 1994

  • A gin-soaked father in My Fair Lady, a gin-soaked popsy in Oliver, an entire gin-soaked mining camp in Paint Your Wagon.

    Futures Imperfect Willis, Connie 1994

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