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US
/ˈpɑpɝ/
]
[ UK /pˈɒpɐ/ ]
[ UK /pˈɒpɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a container for cooking popcorn
- a container of stimulant drug (amyl nitrate or butyl nitrite)
How To Use popper In A Sentence
- From 80s synth poppers to black-leathered stadium rockers, Depeche Mode are nothing if not resilient.
- Popper described science as the greatest adventure in the world.
- As a means of solving the problem British philosopher Karl Popper proposed the principle of falsifiability - if a theory is falsifiable, then it is scientific; if it is not falsifiable, then it is not science.
- Corpus Christi Caller - Riggins handed me a three-weight fly rod with a green popper tied to its tippet.
- On the dance floor, a girl offered me a sniff of her poppers (if you don't know, I'm not going to tell you, then you can make up really terrible images for yourself).
- I also have a floating line which I use a lot during the summer months; it's an ideal line for fishing poppers.
- But I think Popper may have wanted to find out criteria of demarcation between science and such pseudosciences as astrology and Freudian psychoanalysis.
- Drugs were ubiquitous - coke, pot, poppers, and, when all else failed, alcohol.
- Popper is not arguing that ‘existential statements’ - by which I assume he means observations or potential observations - must be falsifiable.
- It was carnival time, yodelling filled the air and party poppers were flecking the whiteness with multicoloured confetti. Times, Sunday Times