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Meaning: (idiomatic)To becomeexplosivelyangry.2006September 3, Ruth La Ferla, “The inside track on Oscars, Emmys, Grammys”, inLos Angeles Times, retrieved5 July 2015:They even decided to give him something they never gave Burton: an honorary Oscar. When O'Toole got wind of it, though, hepopped his corklike a bottle of bubbly, and, at age 70, reminded the academy that he was "still in the game and might win the lovely bugger outright."2007May 20, Ruth La Ferla, “The Once and Future Pee-wee”, inNew York Times, retrieved5 July 2015:Mr. Reubens, as a rock concert promoter, gets topop his cork, spewing expletives with a patently cathartic force.; (idiomatic)To suddenly behaveirrationally; togo crazy.1998, Marian Swerdlow,Underground Woman: My Four Years as a New York City Subway Conductor,→ISBN,page172:And there was Conductor Reyes, who was perfectly ordinary until one day hepopped his corkand started explaining delays by announcing Command Center's telephone number and urging riders to phone for themselves.2014September 15, Ashley Esther Fetters Zuckerman, “Inside Movie: ExaminingAmerican Beautyat 15: A masterpiece, or a farce?”, inEntertainment Weekly, retrieved5 July 2015:I’m sorry to say that even the usually reliable David Denby ofThe New Yorkerseems to havepopped his cork, proclaiming it ‘by far the strongest American film of the year.’2015July 2, Tom Corrigan, “Gun ownership debate rages on for the racists, crazies”, inIssaquah Press, retrieved5 July 2015:Everything I’ve read says the shooter was a white supremacist whopopped his cork.; (idiomatic,vulgar,of a man)Toejaculate.2009,Robert Ferrigno,Heart of the Assassin,→ISBN,page 2:[S]he had given him a perfunctory jerkoff, not even taking his dick out of his pants, laughing as hepopped his corkwithin moments.
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