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popper noun- a finger US
- — Marcus Hanna Boulware, Jive and Slang of Students in Negro Colleges, 1947
- a pistol US
- — Porter Bibb, CB Bible, p. 94, 1976
- a popcorn wagon US
- — Gene Sorrows, All About Carnivals, p. 24, 1985: “Terminology”
- a pneumatic drill NEW ZEALAND
Mining slang. - For the first time in my life I saw and heard pneumatic drills at work. They were referred to as “poppers”. — Bill Richards, Off the Sheep’s Back, p. 85, 1986
- a fart UK
Childish, descriptive. Also called “multipopper”. - — Peter Furze, Tailwinds, p. 140, 1998
- a capsule containing vapours of amyl nitrate or (iso)butyl nitrate inhaled as a stimulant US, 1967
Often used in the plural form. - When I use a popper, I feel as though I had ten assholes and I wanted them all filled at once. — Angelo d’Arcangelo, The Homosexual Handbook, p. 165, 1968
- And if you’re sick of people, what about poppers? — Mart Crowley, The Boys in the Band, p. 31, 1968
- I had no pot on hand, my popper supply was low, and, most disappointing of all, I couldn’t maintain a hard-on. — John Francis Hunter, The Gay Insider, p. 36, 1971
- Amyl nitrite, or “poppers” as they are frequenly known, is one of several drugs that have come to be associated with sex. — Screw, p. 9, 28 June 1971
- The use of amyl nitrite, or “poppers", has become very popular, especially with they younger guys who play mostly M. — Larry Townsend, The Leatherman’s Handbook, p. 30, 1972
- The dressing room of the Rolling Stones is always Groove city–the juice flows, smoke rises, crystals crumble, poppers pop, teenies hang in, and Mick knifes through like a ballet-dancing matador. — Terry Southern, Now Dig This, p. 153, 1972
- But I never took drugs all those years, just toke. No poppers or anything. — Ethan Morden, Buddies, p. 183, 1986
- He unscrewed the poppers bottle, took a couple of huge snorts and rescrewed the lid. — Nicholas Blincoe, Ardwick Green (Disco Biscuits), p. 13, 1996
- any drug addict UK
A very loosely defined, or understood, usage. - — Bournemouth Echo, 28 August 1967
- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 170, 1991
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