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poppers

poppers

5.8
Small peppers filled with cheese and cooked as a spicy snack
  • noun
  • /ˈpɑːpərz/
translation icon : pimientos rellenos
  • Jalapeno poppers, Jalapeno poppers or spring rolls.

Jalapeno poppers, Jalapeno poppers or spring rolls.

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Examples

  • OK, starting with jalapeno poppers no longer sold.

  • The restaurant offers delicious cheese-stuffed poppers that are deep-fried to perfection.

  • This is what they look like from down below with the poppers all open and everything.

  • This will vibrate as soon as our democracy is ready or my jalapeno poppers, whichever comes first.

    The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

  • Would you like to try our new Purgatory Pepper Jack Poppers for 99 cents?

    Drive Thru (2007)

  • And instead of jalapeno poppers, we've got sour plum poppers, AKA sour pinot poppers.

  • At the party, everyone enjoyed the spicy jalapeno poppers filled with creamy cheese.

  • Could you make sure to order some jalapeno poppers for the appetizer before dinner?

Synonyms

stuffed peppers
vspoppers
1 2.0

Peppers hollowed out and filled with rice, meat, or vegetables then cooked

are small cheese filled and deep fried or baked served as a spicy appetizer

Surface Forms

poppers singular
poppers plural

Morphology

poppers = popper (semi-transparent) = pop + er + s

The plural formation is regular, but the snack sense is a conventionalized culinary term rather than a fully predictable combination.

Etymology

A helpful way to remember the snack poppers is to think of small pepper bites you 'pop' into your mouth or the little 'pop' of spicy taste they give, so the name fits a small, spicy snack.