Popcorn, or pop corn, is a variety of corn kernel, which forcefully expands and puffs up when heated.

Popcorn, or pop corn, may also refer to:

Geography

  • Popcorn, Indiana, United States

People

  • Faith Popcorn (born 1943), futurist
  • Marvin Sutton (1946–2009), American Appalachian moonshiner known as "Popcorn"
  • Richard "Popcorn" Wylie (1939–2008), American R&B musician, songwriter and record producer

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

  • Popcorn (1991 film), a horror film
  • Pop Corn (2003 film), a Tamil drama film
  • Popcorn (2007 film), a teen comedy
  • Popcorn (2023 film), an Indian Telugu-language film
  • Popcorn, a 1969 music documentary directed by Peter Clifton

Literature

  • Popcorn (novel), a 1996 novel by Ben Elton
  • Popcorn (play), a 1998 adaptation of Elton's novel

Music

  • Popcorn (Romanian music style), a dance music subgenre established in Romania in the late 2000s
  • Popcorn (Belgian music style), a music subculture and style originally established in Belgium, and based on dancing to R&B and pop records

Albums and box sets

  • Popcorn (Arashi album), 2012
  • Popcorn (Luiz Henrique and Walter Wanderley album), 1967
  • Popcorn, an album by Tammie Brown
  • Popcorn, an album by Moonstar88
  • Popcorn, a box set by The Cocktails
  • The Popcorn (album), an album by James Brown

Songs

  • "Popcorn" (instrumental), a 1969 composition by Gershon Kingsley, covered by Hot Butter in 1972 and several other artists
  • "Popcorn", a song by American musician Kovas from The Arrogance of Youth 2008
  • "The Popcorn", a 1969 instrumental by James Brown
  • "Popcorn", a song recorded by Mrs. Mills

Other arts, entertainment, and media

  • "Popcorn", a 1983 episode of the American TV sitcom Silver Spoons
  • Popcorn (Italian TV series) Italian pop music show 1980-1985
  • Popcorn (American TV series), an American children's variety show
  • PopCorn (video game), a 1989 breakout clone (sub-class of the "bat-and-ball" videogame genre)
  • "Popcorn", a poem by Raffi from his 1979 album The Corner Grocery Store

Computing and technology

  • POPCORN (767-2676), a phoneword used in parts of the United States to reach the speaking clock or local time & temperature information
  • Popcorn Time, a multi-platform open-source Bittorrent-based streaming media player
  • popcorn.js, an open source JavaScript and HTML5 media framework

Enterprises

  • Popcorn.net, a movie download service
  • , an MTR-owned shopping centre in Hong Kong, connected to Tseung Kwan O station

Popcorn-like formations and substances

  • Cave popcorn, a common cave formation
  • Foam peanut or packing peanut, sometimes referred to as popcorn
  • Popcorn ceiling, a decorative ceiling treatment
  • Popcorn lung, an informal name for bronchiolitis obliterans (BO), a lung disease
  • Popcorn noise, a burst noise of electronic components

Other uses

  • Popcorn function, a mathematical function
  • Popcorning, a sporadic jumping behavior of guinea pigs

See also

  • Pop Carn (2003 film), a Tamil film
  • Pop Kaun?, a 2023 Hindi TV series
  • PopCorners, an American snack brand