Popper

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Popper may refer to:

• A popping dancer.
• A jalapeño pepper half which has been stuffed with cream cheese or cheddar cheese, breaded, and then deep fried. It is a popular treat for aficionados of Sonic Drive-In and Arby's fast-food restaurants.
• The singular of the family of drugs colloquially known as "poppers", a subset of a class of chemicals known as alkyl nitrites.
• A floating fishing lure or fly with a cupped or flat, forward-facing indentation that splashes or "pops" the surface of the water when tugged. This disturbance is most often used to attract the attention of bass and pike in freshwater, and redfish or speckled trout in saltwater.
• An Australian brand name for a small Tetra Pak of fruit juice, complete with a straw, designed for individual consumption.
• Popper buttons is another word for "press studs".
• A small amount of tobacco packed into a patty shape with a round ball of marijuana rolled on top of it. Usually stuffed into a "popper bottle". This marijuana smoking technique is common in Southern Ontario, Canada. Produces the same affects as regular marijuana usage along with a slight head rush produced by the tobacco. Popper smokers do not tend to smoke the tobacco part and use it as a sort of screen in the popper bottle tube of the smoking apparatus. Many unique words are used to describe various parts of smoking "popper or poppers" such as: "Sitch" which is the small amount of tobacco ripped from an end of a cigarette to form the base of a popper. "Spoof" which is a filtration device made of a toilet paper roll stuffed with bounty sheets to trap marijuana smoke and the hefty aroma and the "Popper Bottle" itself also known as a "PB" which is usually made of a used soda pop bottle with a nipple tube from a lamp stuck in the side. The "Popper Bottle" is airtight and holds a small amount of water to filter the smoke as the user inhales through the spout of the bottle.^{[citation needed]}
• Nickname used to describe an alleged energy weapon used by the United States military. A "Popper" emits very low frequency (VLF) energy to induce physiologic and/or psychologic impairments. There are allegations that this weapon has become heavily employed in Iraq during the post-911 occupation of this country by the United States. It is claimed that technology used in this weapon is classified and has evolved from radar/sonar research and weaponry used by the United States Navy, going as far back as the 1940s.^{[citation needed]}
• A top-water fishing plug with a concave mouth that causes it to "pop" when retrieved with a jerking motion.
• Popper (subculture), a German subculture in the 1980s
• Party popper, a small 'toy' commonly found at parties (especially New Year's) filled with confetti streamers and a small explosive charge to release them

[edit] Popper as a family name

Popper is derived from the surname Frankfurter. Most are from the Czech Jewish family:

• Albert Popper, Mayor of Vimperk, Official Doctor of the Schwarzenberg Princes.
• David Popper, cellist
• John Popper, musician
• Josef Popper, Austrian engineer and author; born February 22, 1838, at Kolin, Bohemia
• Julius Popper, Romanian explorer
• Sir Karl R. Popper, philosopher
• Ota Pavel, Czech author (born Otto Popper)
• Rafael Popper, Foresight researcher and economist; born at Caracas in 1976
• Siegfried Popper, Austrian naval constructor; born at Prague 1848
• William Popper, American Orientalist; born at St. Louis, 1874
• Wilma Popper, Hungarian authoress; born at Győr, 1857

Poppers as a family name:

• Jacob ben Benjamin Cohen Poppers, German rabbi; born at Prague in the middle of the 17th century
• Meir ben Judah Loeb ha-Kohen Ashkenazi Poppers, Bohemian rabbi and cabalist; born at Prague