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pop verb Of a bear: to gnash or snap (its teeth).
1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 81 They'll run right in on the varmint [=a bear], snappin' and chawin' and worryin' him till he gits so mad you can hear his tushes pop half a mile. 1939 Hall Coll (Hartford TN) He could feel [the bear] a-biting him nearly. He could hear it popping its teeth. 1970 Hunting Stories 79 They had th'big boar bayed ... He'uz standin' there chompin' his teeth, poppin' his teeth.