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popper

popper

8 9.9
A small bottle of liquid people inhale to feel a short strong rush
  • noun
  • /ˈpɑːpər/
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  • At the party, someone opened a bottle of poppers, and everyone started inhaling for a euphoric high.
  • nitrate poppers

And it comes out that he's, you know, having all these gay sex sniffing poppers all the time.

Examples

  • Ferrie sniffs some poppers, then shoves a popper in Shaw's face.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • Oh, I don't believe you never did popper strings, not during sex.

  • ... then he gave me a popper, and I started to feel really wild ... all over the dance floor.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • I also added a little bit of this popper called continental.

  • When the old owl had seen the size of the check, he'd had to pop a popper for his angina.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The club was full of energy as many patrons were enjoying their poppers throughout the night.

  • He passed around a popper, allowing his friends to experience its euphoric effects together.

Synonyms

poppers
vspopper
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9.9

Small bottles of liquid that people inhale for a short rush

is a specific container holding named nitrite chemicals for euphoric effects

Surface Forms

popper singular
poppers plural

Morphology

popper = pop (opaque) = pop + er

Although formed from 'pop' + '-er' in form, the recreational inhalant meaning is specialized and not derivable from the base verb by ordinary rules.

Etymology

The word popper for the small inhalant is a helpful name because the little glass bottles used to make a 'pop' when opened, from pop plus -er meaning 'thing that'. So a popper is the small bottle people inhale from.