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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A very light, hollow muffin made with eggs, milk, and flour.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of hot bread made of thin, smooth, well-beaten batter baked in earthen cups or gem-pans.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun US A light hollow muffin, resembling an individual Yorkshire pudding.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun light hollow muffin made of a puff batter (individual Yorkshire pudding) baked in a deep muffin cup

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Examples

  • A popover is not a lot of nothingness - it has lots and lots of delicious flavor.

    Pretty Near Perfect Popovers aka TBTAM 2008

  • The popover is the size of a Nerf basketball and the kind of thing it is just fun to tear into and eat until it is gone, so when ordering time comes around a significant portion of your hunger is sated.

    Augieland: 2006

  • The popover is the size of a Nerf basketball and the kind of thing it is just fun to tear into and eat until it is gone, so when ordering time comes around a significant portion of your hunger is sated.

    David Burke's Fromagerie, 832 mcmansillion stars 2006

  • Nestled inside the popover is a surprise: oxtail ragout.

    Kimchi Gets a Chelsea Makeover: Nouveau Korean Place Plays Cool 2005

  • Nestled inside the popover is a surprise: oxtail ragout.

    Kimchi Gets a Chelsea Makeover: Nouveau Korean Place Plays Cool 2005

  • For instance, there are "popover" menus that make it easier to make choices without leaving the screen you're on.

    Laptop Killer? Pretty Close Walter S. Mossberg 2010

  • For instance, there are "popover" menus that make it easier to make choices without leaving the screen you're on.

    Laptop Killer? Pretty Close Walter S. Mossberg 2010

  • The new "popover" interface convention and added items on toolbars increase functionality in a way that wouldn't have made sense-and wouldn't have fit-on an iPhone or iPod touch.

    MyAppleMenu 2010

  • The new "popover" interface convention and added items on toolbars increase functionality in a way that wouldn't have made sense -- and wouldn't have fit -- on an iPhone or iPod touch.

    Latest from Computerworld Jason Snell 2010

  • The new "popover" interface convention and added items on toolbars increase functionality in a way that wouldn't have made sense -- and wouldn't have fit -- on an iPhone or iPod touch.

    PCWorld 2010

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