unpop

present singular third person unpops · participle present unpopping · participle past unpopped · past unpopped

1. transitiveTo unfasten (a snap fastener).

   He sat the boy on his lap. And absently adjusted his clothes. In the boy's hand was a metal car. It was painted red. Leon reached down to his vest, unpopping the buttons that secured it beneath the nappy.

   2008, Benjamin Parker, Leon Prilki, page 118

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   The sorts of activities I present are buttoning, lacing, popping and unpopping press-studs, dressing and undressing dolls - although the latter is not usually perceived at all as symbolic or 'play' but a merely mechanical activity.

   2003, Mair Rees, Drawing on Difference

2. transitiveTo cause not to have popped.

   You can't unpop a balloon.