different between popper vs popped
popper
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p?p.?/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /?p?p.?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p?.p?/
- Rhymes: -?p?(r)
- Homophone: pauper (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
Etymology 1
From Middle English poppere, equivalent to pop +? -er (suffix forming agent noun).
Noun
popper (plural poppers)
- One who or that which pops.
- (obsolete) A dagger.
- 14thC, 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.
- 14thC, 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 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 […]
- 2003, James D. Campbell, Mr. Chilehead: Adventures in the Taste of Pain (page 168)
- A looner (balloon fetishist) who prefers to burst balloons.
- (informal, countable) A capsule of amyl nitrite, a recreational drug used during sex.
- Looks like she's had too many poppers.
- (uncountable) Amyl nitrate.
Derived terms
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
Spanish
Noun
popper m (plural poppers)
- popper (capsule for recreational use as a sexual stimulant)
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popped
English
Verb
popped
- simple past tense and past participle of pop
popped From the web:
- what popped the dot com bubble
- what popped behind my knee
- what popped in my knee
- what popped the housing bubble
- what popped in my lower back
- what popped out of luke's sneakers
- what popped means
- what popped in my shoulder
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