Popper may refer to:
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Popper (surname) Popper is a surname.
Notable people with the name include:
* Albert Popper (1808–1889), Mayor of Vimperk and official doctor of the Schwarzenberg Princes
* Ami Popper (born 1969), convicted murderer
* Catherine Popper (born 1973), rock musician
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, including a list of people with the name
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Jalapeño popper
Jalapeño poppers, or jalapeño bites, are jalapeño peppers that have been hollowed out, stuffed with a mixture of cheese, spices, and sometimes ground meat, and breaded and deep fried. They are a common dish on appetizer menus in chain restauran ...
, a type of food
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Poppers
Popper is a slang term given broadly to drugs of the chemical class called alkyl nitrites that are inhaled. Most widely sold products include the original isoamyl nitrite or isopentyl nitrite, and isopropyl nitrite. Isobutyl nitrite is also ...
, a slang term for alkyl nitrites inhaled for recreational purposes
* Poppers, a brand of frozen food owned by
Heinz
The H. J. Heinz Company is an American food processing company headquartered at One PPG Place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company was founded by Henry J. Heinz in 1869. Heinz manufactures thousands of food products in plants on six conti ...
* Popper (see
Popping (dance)
Popping is a street dance adapted out of the earlier Boogaloo (funk dance) cultural movement in Oakland, California. As Boogaloo spread, it would be referred to as Robottin in Richmond, California, Strutting movements in San Francisco and San ...
), a person dancing in a certain street/funk style
* Popper, a floating
fishing popper
The popper is an effective and proven lure designed to move water using a concave or hollowed nose. Poppers aim to simulate any sort of distressed creature that might be moving or struggling on the surface of the water (baitfish, frogs, and insect ...
or fly with a cupped or flat, forward-facing indentation that splashes the surface of the water with a popping sound when tugged
* A
hip pop
Pop rap (also known as pop hip-hop, hip pop, melodic hip-hop or melodic rap) is a genre of music fusing the rhythm-based lyricism of hip hop music with pop music's preference for melodious vocals and catchy tunes. This genre gained mainstrea ...
musician
* Popper, a ball that rises sharply from the pitch when bowled ('pops up') in
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
* Popper, a
juicebox (Australian English)
* Popper buttons, another term for "
snap fastener
A snap fastener, also called snap button, press stud, press fastener, dome fastener, popper, snap and tich (or tich button), is a pair of interlocking discs, made out of a metal or plastic, commonly used in place of traditional buttons to fasten ...
s"
* Poppers, an alternate name for
tearaway pants in British English
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Party popper
A party popper is a handheld pyrotechnic device commonly used at parties. It emits a loud popping noise by means of a small friction-actuated explosive charge that is activated by pulling a string. The explosive charge comes from a very small amo ...
, a small 'toy' filled with confetti streamers and a small explosive charge to release them
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Bang snaps
Bang snaps are a type of small novelty firework sold as a trick noisemaker.
Composition
Bang snaps consist of a small amount of gravel or coarse sand impregnated with a minute quantity (~0.2 milligrams) of silver fulminate high explosive and twi ...
, small novelty fireworks that produce a loud snapping sound when thrown on the ground
* Poppers, a slang term for
Papadum
A papad is an Indian deep fried dough of black gram bean flour, either fried or cooked with dry heat (flipped over an open flame) until crunchy. Other flours made from lentils, chickpeas, rice, tapioca, millet or potato are also used. ''Papad' ...
, an Indian crisp wafer or cracker
* ''Poppers'', a cartoon strip by
Jerry Mills
Jerry A. Mills (February 26, 1951 - January 28, 1993) was an openly gay cartoonist known for his comic strip ''Poppers'', which is credited as one of the first comic strips to develop multi-dimensional gay characters. Scholars have stated that ...
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Eye popper
An eye popper, rubber popper, hopper popper or jumping popper is a children's toy. It consists of a small, dome-shaped piece of rubber or similar material resembling a half of a rubber ball; the shape of a smile is often imprinted on the dome. Whe ...
, a dome-shaped children's toy
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