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Pop an article in the very centre of the middle! (3)

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dad

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'pop' is the definition.
(both can mean one's father)

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(Other definitions for dad that I've seen before include "Father, in short" , "Popular and informal father" , "Papa" , "Popular father - a palindrome" , "Relation" .)

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