# popper
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpɒp.ə/
* (General Australian) IPA: /ˈpɔp.ə/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈpɑ.pɚ/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒpə(ɹ)
* Homophone: pauper (cot–caught merger)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English poppere, equivalent to pop +‎ -er (suffix forming agent noun).
(capsule of amyl nitrite): From the popping sound when the capsule is broken open.

#### Noun

popper (countable and uncountable, plural poppers)
* One who or that which pops.
* (obsolete) A dagger.
* A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked.
    Synonym: cracker
* (fishing) A floating lure designed to splash when the fishing line is twitched.
* Either of a pair of interlocking discs commonly used in place of buttons to fasten clothing, a snap fastener.
    Synonyms: snap, snap fastener, press stud
* A device that pops kernels of corn to produce popcorn.
* A stuffed and usually breaded jalapeño.
** 2003, James D. Campbell, Mr. Chilehead: Adventures in the Taste of Pain, page 168:You mix habs into the cheese before stuffing your poppers […]
* A looner (balloon fetishist) who prefers to burst balloons.
** 2019, Dennis DiClaudio, The Deviant's Pocket Guide to the Outlandish Sexual Desires Barely Contained in Your Subconscious, page 87:Looners (as they call themselves) can generally be divided into two categories, regardless of whether they prefer their balloon play with a partner or alone: poppers and non-poppers.
* (informal, countable) A capsule of amyl nitrite, a recreational drug used during sex.
    Coordinate term: popper up
** 1986, Mary Bringle, The Senator's Daughter, page 55:If a person inhales a popper on the brink — the very brink — of climax, then the orgasm is much more powerful.
** 1986, Stephen Koch, The Bachelors' Bride, page 240:Against all this was the counter-rhythm of the hip-flask and the drugs, that steady resorting at every pause for breath, to the swig of the secret drinker; or, high in his excitement, the burst of a popper and then the sucking sound of Cullen inhaling.
** 1996, Patricia Nell Warren, Harlan's Race, page 58:Then, suddenly, Vince sagged — light-headed. Too many poppers.
** 1999, Greg Kramer, Hogtown Bonbons, page 8:Looks like she's had too many poppers.
** 1999, Ted Mooney, Singing Into the Piano, page 328:When she heard Tuercas snap open a popper, she raised her own eyes instinctively. / His face was flushed red with the drug as he held the ampule to his nose
** 2002, Brendan Mullen, Don Bolles, Adam Parfrey, Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and the Germs, page 195:I guess he was tricking with some other hustler a couple of days later and OD'd on one too many poppers—a heart attack in his sleep.
** 2002, John Griesemer, No One Thinks of Greenland:The annex still stood, and from inside came the grunting sounds of Eskimos and GIs in rut. Lavone was sitting near Rudy. He cracked an amyl popper.
** 2008, David J. Schow, Gun Work, page 91:Sucio paused in his dress-down of Barney's lineage, sexuality and potty habits to sample an amyl nitrate popper, which snapped his focus clear with cardiac paddle speed.
** 2010, Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall, Ghosted, page 130:Too low. Must get higher! He cracked open a popper, inhaling deeply. Then another. For a brief but thankful moment, a faint high lifted through him. He clicked on the Internet icon, then his email. At that moment the marijuana, coke, and amyl nitrite collided in his bloodstream.
* (informal, uncountable) Amyl nitrate.
** 2005, Jack Fritscher, Some Dance to Remember: A Memoir-novel of San Francisco, 1970-1982, page 340:Ryan knelt up in bed with his knees against Kick's side. "You okay?" Ryan asked. / "Too much popper," he said. “Maybe I have jet lag.
** 2019, Lars Iyer, Nietzsche and the Burbs, page 38:Maybe he has some popper—that's a gay drug, right? Nicholas Nugent should at least have some popper . . . Art, leaning into the gaggle. Nicholas Nugent, shaking his pretty head. No popper. Do you think it's possible to popper yourself gay?

##### Derived terms

* air popper
* cherry-popper
* eye-popper
* K-popper
* party popper
* pill-popper
* pill popper
* pizza popper
* popcorn popper
* popper up
* toe popper

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Popper (“a brand name”), a brand name owned by Queensland United Foods; from 1978.

#### Noun

popper (plural poppers)
* (Australia) Synonym of juice box
** 1997 September 5, Richard Harrowell, “Advice on Skiing Europe”, in aus.snow (Usenet):Again buy your own food - for lunch you get some tomato, some Jambon Fume (proscuitto) and a baguette along with some poppers and your have a feast.

## Middle English
### Noun

popper (plural poppers)
* dagger
** 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Reves Tale, The Canterbury Tales, 2003, Walter W. Skeat (editor) Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Part 2, The Reeve's Prologue ,
    A joly popper baar he in his pouche ; / Ther was no man for peril dorste him touche.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English popper.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpopeɾ/ [ˈpo.peɾ]
* Rhymes: -opeɾ

### Noun

popper m (plural poppers)
* popper (capsule for recreational use as a sexual stimulant)

#### Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.