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Popper

ˈpɑpər
WordNet
Interesting fact
Until the late 1800's, people roasted their coffee at home. Popcorn poppers and stove-top frying pans were favored.
  1. (n) popper
    a container for cooking popcorn
  2. (n) popper
    a container of stimulant drug (amyl nitrate or butyl nitrite)
  3. (n) Popper
    British philosopher (born in Austria) who argued that scientific theories can never be proved to be true, but are tested by attempts to falsify them (1902-1994)
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Popper
    A utensil for popping corn, usually a wire basket with a long handle.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) popper
    A utensil for popping corn; a corn-popper. It is made of wire gauze with a cover and a long wooden handle.
  2. (n) popper
    Anything that pops or makes a popping sound, as a firecracker or pistol.
  3. (n) popper
    A dagger.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. Popper
    anything that makes a popping sound
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Imit.

Usage in the news

Popper 's Penguins' review: Jim Carrey mars otherwise charming cute-animal movie. nj.com

Barry Wetcher Thomas Popper , played by Jim Carrey, enjoys dinner with his new friends in "Mr. Popper 's Penguins". nj.com

Mr Popper 's Penguins finds Jim Carrey choosing option No. riverfronttimes.com

Jim Carrey warms up to the Antarctic type in Mr Popper 's Penguins. riverfronttimes.com

Mr Popper 's Penguins Directed by Mark Waters. riverfronttimes.com

See that little off-set where we list all the stars of Mr Popper 's Penguins. dallasnews.com

Popper 's Penguins' Pretty Poopy. foxnews.com

In tournaments, poppers consistently put bass in Mason's livewell spring through fall. bassmaster.com

Popper 's Penguins / The Smurfs. okgazette.com

I loved the movie "Mr. Popper 's Penguins," and everything about it. okgazette.com

Mr Popper 's Penguins / The. okgazette.com

Perfect Popper pulls in prizes. packworld.com

Tonight The Green Lantern and Mr Popper 's Penguins open in theaters. 98country.com

The Green Lantern isn't getting the 4 star rating and surprisingly, Mr Popper 's Penguins gets a high mark. 98country.com

Jalapeno Popper Bites & Cheese Wontons. fox10tv.com

Usage in scientific papers

Our analysis shows that, to some extend, Popper’s test can indeed be conclusive to discriminate between his own approach and the standard version of quantum mechanics.
Popper's test of Quantum Mechanics

Popper K R (1982) Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics.
Popper's test of Quantum Mechanics

Popper K R (1984) Open Questions in Quantum Physics.
Popper's test of Quantum Mechanics

The experimental setup proposed by Popper is quite simple.
Popper's test of quantum mechanics and two-photon "ghost" diffraction

Popper further assumes that the source decays at rest and the two photons are thus emitted with opposite momenta, ~k1 + ~k2 = 0.
Popper's test of quantum mechanics and two-photon "ghost" diffraction

Usage in literature

I'll be real glad to see you, and I guess popper'd like to talk to you about things in the East. "The Spinner's Book of Fiction" by Various

I called my stepfather popper. "Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4" by Work Projects Administration

He says he come down an' hunt wif me an' you an' Popper! "Frank of Freedom Hill" by Samuel A. Derieux

Have your popper made with a swinging wire, hanging from the ceiling down over the furnace to save labor. "One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed" by C. A. Bogardus

I always said I'd be a soldier like my popper. "Winning the Wilderness" by Margaret Hill McCarter

With kind regards, Yours most sincerely, DAVID POPPER. "Violin Making" by Walter H. Mayson

He nodded in reply, and sprinkled the popper with kernels again, and she went back to her bench, carrying the pan under one arm. "The Biography of a Prairie Girl" by Eleanor Gates

I'll nurse you; and popper says I am just a natural-born nurse, if there ever was one. "Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885" by Various

Next day Valentia went to say good-bye to the old French painter whom all the American girls called Popper. "Orientations" by William Somerset Maugham

He don't have to, with popper bossin' a couple of trunk lines. "Side-stepping with Shorty" by Sewell Ford

Usage in poetry
He grinned mighty cheerful and said to his wife,
"I'll give them old waddies the start of their life.
I'll wear my old chaps and my boots and cross L's
I was wunst a brush popper, a rider from Hell."