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"ref": "2019, Dennis DiClaudio, The Deviant's Pocket Guide to the Outlandish Sexual Desires Barely Contained in Your Subconscious, page 87",
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"ref": "1986, Mary Bringle, The Senator's Daughter, page 55",
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"ref": "1986, Stephen Koch, The Bachelors' Bride, page 240",
"text": "Against all this was the counter-rhythm of the hip-flask and the drugs, that steady resorting at every pause for breath, to the swig of the secret drinker; or, high in his excitement, the burst of a popper and then the sucking sound of Cullen inhaling.",
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"ref": "1996, Patricia Nell Warren, Harlan's Race, page 58",
"text": "Then, suddenly, Vince sagged — light-headed. Too many poppers.",
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"ref": "1999, Greg Kramer, Hogtown Bonbons, page 8",
"text": "Looks like she's had too many poppers.",
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"ref": "1999, Ted Mooney, Singing Into the Piano, page 328",
"text": "When she heard Tuercas snap open a popper, she raised her own eyes instinctively. / His face was flushed red with the drug as he held the ampule to his nose",
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"ref": "2002, Brendan Mullen, Don Bolles, Adam Parfrey, Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and the Germs, page 195",
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"ref": "2002, John Griesemer, No One Thinks of Greenland",
"text": "The annex still stood, and from inside came the grunting sounds of Eskimos and GIs in rut. Lavone was sitting near Rudy. He cracked an amyl popper.",
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"ref": "2008, David J. Schow, Gun Work, page 91",
"text": "Sucio paused in his dress-down of Barney's lineage, sexuality and potty habits to sample an amyl nitrate popper, which snapped his focus clear with cardiac paddle speed.",
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"ref": "2010, Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall, Ghosted, page 130",
"text": "Too low. Must get higher! He cracked open a popper, inhaling deeply. Then another. For a brief but thankful moment, a faint high lifted through him. He clicked on the Internet icon, then his email. At that moment the marijuana, coke, and amyl nitrite collided in his bloodstream.",
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"ref": "2019, Dennis DiClaudio, The Deviant's Pocket Guide to the Outlandish Sexual Desires Barely Contained in Your Subconscious, page 87",
"text": "Looners (as they call themselves) can generally be divided into two categories, regardless of whether they prefer their balloon play with a partner or alone: poppers and non-poppers.",
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"A looner (balloon fetishist) who prefers to burst balloons."
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"text": "Coordinate term: popper up"
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"ref": "1986, Mary Bringle, The Senator's Daughter, page 55",
"text": "If a person inhales a popper on the brink — the very brink — of climax, then the orgasm is much more powerful.",
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"ref": "1986, Stephen Koch, The Bachelors' Bride, page 240",
"text": "Against all this was the counter-rhythm of the hip-flask and the drugs, that steady resorting at every pause for breath, to the swig of the secret drinker; or, high in his excitement, the burst of a popper and then the sucking sound of Cullen inhaling.",
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"ref": "1996, Patricia Nell Warren, Harlan's Race, page 58",
"text": "Then, suddenly, Vince sagged — light-headed. Too many poppers.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1999, Greg Kramer, Hogtown Bonbons, page 8",
"text": "Looks like she's had too many poppers.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1999, Ted Mooney, Singing Into the Piano, page 328",
"text": "When she heard Tuercas snap open a popper, she raised her own eyes instinctively. / His face was flushed red with the drug as he held the ampule to his nose",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2002, Brendan Mullen, Don Bolles, Adam Parfrey, Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and the Germs, page 195",
"text": "I guess he was tricking with some other hustler a couple of days later and OD'd on one too many poppers—a heart attack in his sleep.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2002, John Griesemer, No One Thinks of Greenland",
"text": "The annex still stood, and from inside came the grunting sounds of Eskimos and GIs in rut. Lavone was sitting near Rudy. He cracked an amyl popper.",
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"ref": "2008, David J. Schow, Gun Work, page 91",
"text": "Sucio paused in his dress-down of Barney's lineage, sexuality and potty habits to sample an amyl nitrate popper, which snapped his focus clear with cardiac paddle speed.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall, Ghosted, page 130",
"text": "Too low. Must get higher! He cracked open a popper, inhaling deeply. Then another. For a brief but thankful moment, a faint high lifted through him. He clicked on the Internet icon, then his email. At that moment the marijuana, coke, and amyl nitrite collided in his bloodstream.",
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"ref": "2005, Jack Fritscher, Some Dance to Remember: A Memoir-novel of San Francisco, 1970-1982, page 340",
"text": "Ryan knelt up in bed with his knees against Kick's side. \"You okay?\" Ryan asked. / \"Too much popper,\" he said. “Maybe I have jet lag.",
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"ref": "2019, Lars Iyer, Nietzsche and the Burbs, page 38",
"text": "Maybe he has some popper—that's a gay drug, right? Nicholas Nugent should at least have some popper . . . Art, leaning into the gaggle. Nicholas Nugent, shaking his pretty head. No popper. Do you think it's possible to popper yourself gay?",
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"ref": "1997 September 5, Richard Harrowell, “Advice on Skiing Europe”, in aus.snow (Usenet)",
"text": "Again buy your own food - for lunch you get some tomato, some Jambon Fume (proscuitto) and a baguette along with some poppers and your have a feast.",
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"(Australia) Synonym of juice box"
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