I have made a (rather complicated) solution where I have 4 menu items pop in/out from the side and I make that happen by toggling a class.
$('.menuitem').toggleClass('show');
Consider this following code:
$('.menuitem').each(function(i) {
var elm=$(this);
setTimeout(function() {
elm.toggleClass('show');
}, i * 250);
});
See it in action, in this demo i have hiding diving one by one and delay is 1000 ms.