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 musicia ...
, 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 restau ...
, a type of food
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Poppers
Poppers are recreational drugs belonging to the alkyl nitrite family of chemical compounds. When fumes from these substances are inhaled, they act as potent vasodilators, producing mild euphoria, warmth, and dizziness. Most effects have a r ...
, a slang term for alkyl nitrites inhaled for recreational purposes
* Poppers, a brand of frozen food owned by
Heinz
The Kraft Heinz Foods Company, formerly the H. J. Heinz Company and commonly known as Heinz (), is an American food processing company headquartered at One PPG Place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company was founded by Henry J. Heinz in 1869. ...
* Popper (see
Popping (dance)
Popping is a street dance adapted out of the earlier Boogaloo (funk dance), boogaloo cultural movement in Oakland, California. As boogaloo spread, it would be referred to as "robottin'" in Richmond, California; strutting movements in San Francis ...
), 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, pop hop, hip pop, melodic hip-hop or melodic rap) is a genre of music fusing the Rapping, rhythm-based lyricism of hip-hop, hip hop with pop music, pop's preference for Melody, melodic vocals, Catchiness, catc ...
musician
* Popper, a ball that rises sharply from the pitch when bowled ('pops up') in
cricket
Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball game played between two Sports team, teams of eleven players on a cricket field, field, at the centre of which is a cricket pitch, pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two Bail (cr ...
* Popper, a
juicebox (Australian English)
* Popper buttons, another term for "
snap fastener
A snap fastener, also called snap button, press 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 butt ...
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 a ...
, a small 'toy' filled with confetti streamers and a small explosive charge to release them
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Bang snaps Bang snaps (known as poppers; whipper snappers, Indian English: pop pop crackers) 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 q ...
, small novelty fireworks that produce a loud snapping sound when thrown on the ground
* Poppers, a slang term for
Papadum
A papadam (also spelled poppadom, among other variants), also known as papad, is a snack that originated in the Indian subcontinent. Dough of black gram bean flour is either deep fried or cooked with dry heat (flipped over an open flame) unt ...
, an Indian crisp wafer or cracker
* ''Poppers'', a cartoon strip by
Jerry Mills
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Eye popper, a dome-shaped children's toy
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