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popper

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Word definitions for popper in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Am I alone, though, in questioning the value of the poppers on the bellows side pockets? ▪ Another snort of poppers and I craved him. ▪ Cuffs and hem are adjusted by flaps and poppers, using the natural spring of the fleece. ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a container of stimulant drug (amyl nitrate or butyl nitrite) a container for cooking popcorn

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Popper \Pop"per\, n. A dagger. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Usage examples of popper.

Next I bought a joint, a popper, a phial of cocaine and a plug of opium from a fat spade in Times Square and snuffled it all up in a gogo bar toilet.

I stood under these bleachers, hailstones popping all around us, like we were trapped inside this really big popcorn popper.

Philosophers accepted that Kuhn had outpointed Popper, but sought an alternative way that avoided his sociologizing conclusions and retained the validity of the internalist account of science.

But in that brief interval, the array of munitions and poppers on the sample pedestals was subjected to what Brohier cheekily called the bolometric intermodulating gauge-integrating field - the BIG-IF.

We had an hour from the time we slipped into the water until Cruz was scheduled to signal the start by taking out the first popper.

Philosophers accepted that Kuhn had outpointed Popper, but sought an alternative way that avoided his sociologizing conclusions and retained the validity of the internalist account of science.

He was also snacking on a plate of poppers: batter-fried jalapeno peppers filled with molten cheese.

Popper (and he is far from alone) counts individuals and populations as being of the same logical (and existential) type, and thus arrangeable one above the other, as different "levels" on the same scale (such as, in his scheme, level 7 and level 8, or level 10 and level 11).

His terror did more to bring him to full consciousness than the amyl nitrate popper snapped under his nose.

Nothing had turned up which might indicate a woman and a boy had been held in the back, but they had found a nice little pharmacy in the van's wheel well - marijuana, some cocaine in an Anacin bottle, three amyl nitrate poppers, and two speedy combinations of the type known as Black Beauties.

Dildoes, dog collars, whips, chains, amyl nitrite poppers, panties, brassieres, cock rings, catheters, enema bags, black lizard pumps with six-inch heels and a female mannequin covered by a tarp-- plasterboard, rubber lips, glued-on pubic hair, a snatch made from a garden hose.

There was a table elaborately set with colognes, mouthwashes, and a teak box filled with amyl nitrite poppers.

Every souvenir shop has poppers of amyl nitrite for sale in the back.

So butter was melted by the ton, and hard kernel corn shoveled by the bucketful into the rotating maws of thirty poppers big as cement mixers-which had, in fact, originally been cement mixers-and fires stoked beneath them until hot yellow puffs were exploding in every direction, littering the ground, being devoured there by legions of producers who momentarily forgot their taste for fresh film in their popcorn feeding frenzy.

So butter was melted by the ton, and hard kernel corn shoveled by the bucketful into the rotating maws of thirty poppers big as cement mixers -- which had, in fact, originally been cement mixers -- and fires stoked beneath them until hot yellow puffs were exploding in every direction, littering the ground, being devoured there by legions of producers who momentarily forgot their taste for fresh film in their popcorn feeding frenzy.