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Definition: Popper |
PopperNoun1. A container of stimulant drug (amyl nitrate or butyl nitrite). 2. A container for cooking popcorn. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "popper" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Public Administration | An amyl nitrite capsule, which is crushed and its contents inhaled by drug users as a stimulant. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
It is also the surname of philosopher Karl Popper and the singular of the drug poppers.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Popper."
Crosswords: Popper |
| English words defined with "popper": Corn popper. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "popper": cereal popper ♦ Toe Popper. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Popper" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (preppy). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Francis X. Popper in the Philippines Regimental navigator for Army amphibious engineers. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | PATHFINDER wardroom 1959 Front Row: Carter, Keltner, Stavran, Harper, Kinney Center Row: Nygren, Clark, Captain Rubottom, CME Gilgan, Popper Back Row: Poor, McCall, Meiers, Taetz, Wiener, Newton, Ten Eyck, Degroot. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Weasel traveling through the snow with bare tundra in background Weasel driver - Lieutenant Commander Francis X. Popper. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Lieutenant Commander Francis X. Popper, C&GS. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | What every husband knows. Little pay envelope, come to Popper! Sam, this is the first ... Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Popper" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.93% of the time. "Popper" is used about 54 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 75.93% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Noun (singular) | 24.07% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 54 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "popper" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Popper | Last name | 200 | 37,127 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "popper": Corn popper. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "popper": party-popper, pick-popper, pill-popper. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "popper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pjekëse kokoshkash, sustë (spring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пукало за пуканки. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | popper. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | popper (to pop, to skin pop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | stukker (roscoe), puska (cheat sheet, crib, crib notes, cribs, gun, hand-gun, musket, rifle), pisztoly (colt, firecracker, gun, pistol, roscoe), flinta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | bottone automatico (press stud). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opperpay corchete (accolade, brace, buckle, clasp, hook, staple). (various references) mısır patlatma kabı, çıtçıt (fastener, gripper, press stud, snap, snap fastener). (various references) пістолет (pistol, pop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "popper": poppers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "popper": eyepopper, joypopper. (additional references) | |
Words containing "popper": eyepoppers, joypoppers. (additional references) | |
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"Popper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ooper, Opper, oppor, Pippert, poepper, Polpero, Pompier, poopet, Popek, Popel, poper, poperi, Poperon, popex, Poppaea, Poppe, Poppel, poppere, poppi, poppier, poppler, Poppo, Popter, porper, pouper, propper, Pupker, pupper, Pupwrf, wopper. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "popper" (pronounced pÄ"per) |
| 3 | -Ä" p er | bopper, chopper, copper, cropper, dropper, Hopper, improper, proper, shopper, stopper, Topper, whopper. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-o-p-p-p-r" | |
-2 letters: pepo, perp, pope, pore, prep, prop, repo, repp, rope. | |
-3 letters: ope, ore, pep, per, pop, pro, rep, roe. | |
-4 letters: er, oe, op, or, pe, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-o-p-p-p-r" | |
+1 letter: poppers, propped. | |
+3 letters: eyepopper, joypopper, pepperbox, pepperoni, uppropped. | |
+4 letters: eyepoppers, joypoppers, peppercorn, pepperonis, preapprove, presuppose. | |
+5 letters: appropriate, copperplate, paradropped, pepperboxes, peppercorns, preapproved, preapproves, presupposed, presupposes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 70 70 65 72 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- .--. .--. . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110000 01110000 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o p p e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0070 0070 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)508182827184 |
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