Meaning of Popper | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname from German.
2. One who or that which pops.
   countable, uncountable
3. Synonym of juice box.
   Australia
4. 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.
   countable, uncountable
5. A floating lure designed to splash when the fishing line is twitched.
   countable, uncountable
6. Either of a pair of interlocking discs commonly used in place of buttons to fasten clothing, a snap fastener.
   countable, uncountable
7. A device that pops kernels of corn to produce popcorn.
   countable, uncountable
8. A stuffed and usually breaded jalapeño.
   countable, uncountable
9. A looner (balloon fetishist) who prefers to burst balloons.
   countable, uncountable
10. A capsule of amyl nitrite, a recreational drug used during sex.
    countable, informal
11. Amyl nitrate.
    informal, uncountable
12. A dagger.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

““Finished the last one at three this morning, apart from bits and bobs and poppers. Quite frankly, I'm dead!””

“You mix habs into the cheese before stuffing your poppers […]”

““Where to, you crazy kids?” “Buffalo Wild Wings. It's all you can eat jalapeno poppers night.””

““What are those things you are always eating?” “Pizza bagels?” “No.” “Pizza rolls?” “No.” “Pizza poppers?” “No.” “Pizzaritos?” “No.” “Pizza pockets?” “That's it.””

““Man, how long was I asleep? Those skeeto poppers really knocked me out.””

“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.”

“If a person inhales a popper on the brink — the very brink — of climax, then the orgasm is much more powerful.”

“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.”

“Then, suddenly, Vince sagged — light-headed. Too many poppers.”

“Looks like she's had too many poppers.”

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”

“Again buy your own food - for lunch you get some tomato, some Jambon Fume (proscuitto) and a baguette along with some poppers and your^([sic]) have a feast.”

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