pop star

collocation in English

meaningsofpopandstar

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pop
adjective[before noun]
uk
/pɒp/us
/pɑːp/
enjoyed by many people and easy ...
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star
noun
uk
/stɑːr/us
/stɑːr/
a very large ball of burning gas in space that is usually seen from the earth as a point of light in the sky ...
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(Definition ofpopandstarfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpop star

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However, in the young women screaming and swooning at the sight of their favouritepopstar, we get the epitome of the jouissance of 'pop'.
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Thepopstar, not the composer, has a prominent position; but the small print shows that the music is a co-production made by a team of co-workers.
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The main role of the 'popstar' is to entertain.
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Thepopstaror film star experimenting with drugs and treated as a hero in the newspaper once again is a person.
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Many are far more interested in their identity as, for instance, fans of a football club or a particularpopstar.
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And then consider the extreme case of a juvenilepopstarwho has enormous amounts of unearned income from say royalties?
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For example, it is rather odd that a very highly skilled scientist should be paid one-tenth of what is earned annually by apopstar.
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We may be losing the oddpopstar, but we are not losing the real incentives for work in the areas where it matters.
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Amongst the self-employed are the small shopkeeper and the private tradesman but there is also thepopstarand the financial wheeler-dealer.
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Therefore, you must in some way be morally inferior to apopstarwho on five or six days a week may be taking drugs.
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In addition to thepopstarsyndrome, there is a lot of serious planting in forestry estates with 100-year cycles.
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Therefore, you either have to be a television personality, perhaps a nationally known and successful sportsman, or apopstar.
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The person named might be a football player or apopstar.
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No one today can pick up a newspaper without seeing a photograph of some young actress or womanpopstar displaying her charms in varying versions of hot pants.
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He was apopstar.
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