Crossword clues for popper
popper
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Popper \Pop"per\, n. A utensil for popping corn, usually a wire basket with a long handle.
Popper \Pop"per\, n.
A dagger. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 One who pop. 2 (label en obsolete) A dagger. 3 A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or crack. 4 (label en informal) A capsule of amyl nitrite for recreational use as a sexual stimulant. 5 (label en fishing) A floating lure designed to splash when the fishing line is twitched. 6 Either of a pair of interlocking discs commonly used in place of buttons to fasten clothing. 7 A device that pops kernels of corn to produce popcorn. 8 A stuffed and usually breaded jalapeño. Etymology 2
n. (label en Australia) A juice box.
WordNet
n. a container of stimulant drug (amyl nitrate or butyl nitrite)
a container for cooking popcorn
Wikipedia
Popper may refer to:
- Jalapeño popper, a type of food
- Poppers, the family of drugs that are a subset of a class of chemicals known as alkyl nitrites
- Poppers, a brand of frozen food owned by Heinz
- Popper (see Popping (dance)), a person dancing in a certain street/funk style
- Popper, a floating fishing popper or fly with a cupped or flat, forward-facing indentation that splashes the surface of the water with a popping sound when tugged
- A hip pop musician
- Popper, a ball that rises sharply from the pitch when bowled ('pops up') in cricket
- Popper, a Juicebox (Australian English)
- Popper buttons, another term for " snap fasteners"
- Poppers, an alternate name for tearaway pants in British English
- Party popper, a small 'toy' filled with confetti streamers and a small explosive charge to release them
- Bang snaps, small novelty fireworks that produce a loud snapping sound when thrown on the ground
- Poppers, a slang term for Papadum, an Indian crisp wafer or cracker
- Poppers, a cartoon strip by Jerry Mills
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.