- a person or thing that pops.
- a utensil, as a covered pan, used for popping corn.
- chugger.
- a vial of amyl or butyl nitrite abused as a vasodilator for the effect of exhilaration.
- British philosopher, born in Austria.
- a person or thing that pops
- British an informal name for press stud
- a container for cooking popcorn in
- an amyl nitrite capsule, which is crushed and its contents inhaled by drug users as a stimulant
- Sir Karl. 1902–94, British philosopher, born in Vienna. In The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934), he proposes that knowledge cannot be absolutely confirmed, but rather that science progresses by the experimental refutation of the current theory and its consequent replacement by a new theory, equally provisional but covering more of the known data. The Open Society and its Enemies (1945) is a critique of dogmatic political philosophies, such as Marxism. Other works are The Poverty of Historicism (1957), Conjectures and Refutations (1963), and Objective Knowledge (1972)
