popper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒp.ə/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈpɑ.pəɹ/
note: of Canada
ipa: [ˈpɑ.pɚ]
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈpɒp.əɹ/
note: of the US
ipa: [ˈpɒp.ɚ]
ipa: /ˈpɔp.ə/
rhymes: -ɒpə(ɹ)
homophone: pauper (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: poppers
Etymology: From Middle English poppere, equivalent to pop + -er (suffix forming agent noun).
Sense 8 ("capsule of amyl nitrite") is derived from the popping sound when the capsule is broken open; from which sense 9 also derives.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which pops.
synonyms: cracker
glosses: 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.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A floating lure designed to splash when the fishing line is twitched.
synonyms: snap
snap fastener
press stud
glosses: Either of a pair of interlocking discs commonly used in place of buttons to fasten clothing, a snap fastener.
glosses: A device that pops kernels of corn to produce popcorn.
examples: text: You mix habs into the cheese before stuffing your poppers […]
ref: 2003, James D. Campbell, Mr. Chilehead: Adventures in the Taste of Pain, page 168:
text: “Where to, you crazy kids?” “Buffalo Wild Wings. It's all you can eat jalapeno poppers night.”
ref: 2012 April 25, Erik Richter, “Fools for Love” (20:37 from the start), in Ugly Americans, season 2, episode 17, spoken by Callie Maggotbone (Natasha Leggero):
text: “What are those things you are always eating?” “Pizza bagels?” “No.” “Pizza rolls?” “No.” “Pizza poppers?” “No.” “Pizzaritos?” “No.” “Pizza pockets?” “That's it.”
ref: 2018 March 18, Andy Gosche, “Safe House” (8:08 from the start), in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 5, episode 12, spoken by Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg):
text: “Man, how long was I asleep? Those skeeto poppers really knocked me out.”
ref: 2022 July 13, Danielle Uhlarik, “The Rays That Turn People Into Various Things” (12:58 from the start), in Solar Opposites, season 3, episode 9, spoken by Halk Hogam (Sterling K. Brown):
glosses: A stuffed and usually breaded jalapeño.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2019, Dennis DiClaudio, The Deviant's Pocket Guide to the Outlandish Sexual Desires Barely Contained in Your Subconscious, page 87:
glosses: A looner (balloon fetishist) who prefers to burst balloons.
examples: text: If a person inhales a popper on the brink — the very brink — of climax, then the orgasm is much more powerful.
ref: 1986, Mary Bringle, The Senator's Daughter, page 55:
text: 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.
ref: 1986, Stephen Koch, The Bachelors' Bride, page 240:
text: Then, suddenly, Vince sagged — light-headed. Too many poppers.
ref: 1996, Patricia Nell Warren, Harlan's Race, page 58:
text: Looks like she's had too many poppers.
ref: 1999, Greg Kramer, Hogtown Bonbons, page 8:
text: 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
ref: 1999, Ted Mooney, Singing Into the Piano, page 328:
text: 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.
ref: 2002, Brendan Mullen, Don Bolles, Adam Parfrey, Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and the Germs, page 195:
text: 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.
ref: 2002, John Griesemer, No One Thinks of Greenland:
text: 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.
ref: 2008, David J. Schow, Gun Work, page 91:
text: 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.
ref: 2010, Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall, Ghosted, page 130:
coordinate_terms: popper up
glosses: A capsule of amyl nitrite, a recreational drug used during sex.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2005, Jack Fritscher, Some Dance to Remember: A Memoir-novel of San Francisco, 1970-1982, page 340:
text: 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?
ref: 2019, Lars Iyer, Nietzsche and the Burbs, page 38:
glosses: Amyl nitrate.
glosses: A dagger.
Derived terms: air popper
cherry-popper
eye-popper
K-popper
party popper
pill-popper
pill popper
pizza popper
popcorn popper
poppered
popper up
toe popper