Definition of "poppers"

Have I been doing too much poppers?

1991, Perry Brass, Mirage, page 161

Amyl nitrate, colloquially called “poppers” has been implicated in the epidemic among gay men.

1995, California Community Planning Working Group, California HIV Prevention Plan, page 155

Amyl nitrate, or “poppers,” has been popular as a sexual stimulant in male homosexual communities.

2001, Todd Wilk Estroff, Manual of Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment, page 39

When compared with crystal and its devastating effects, poppers was a relatively mild threat. In fact, many only saw its benefits. “Amyl nitrate is the only drug gay people can claim to know better than straight people"

2005, The Advocate, numbers 942-953, page 2

People were convinced that 'poppers' was being pumped through the air conditioning units. That the glasses were being rinsed in morphine! They were desperately trying to find some explanation for their excessiveness.

2005, Helge Janssen, Tell Tale, page 91

Poppers is a solvent which is inhaled, for instance directly from a small bottle.

2009, Irmgard Eisenbach-Stangl, Jacek Moskalewicz, Betsy Thom, Two Worlds of Drug Consumption in Late Modern Societies

He was a regular at Thursdays, our weekend hangout, and I had fucked his head up one night by encouraging him to sniff way too much poppers […] .

2012, Jodi.C.King, I Was a Killing Joke: A Bird's Eye View

This rhyming lark's not as hard as it seems Just like fucking on too much poppers.

2020, Jon Bradfield, Martin Hooper, He's Behind You: Eleven Gay Pantomimes

Poppers are used commonly during social events such as dancing and for muscle relaxation during sex. Poppers are most commonly used in the lesbian and gay population , but have been experimented with by others as well.

1991, Brenda Smith Faison, Laila Moustafa, The AIDS Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Handbook, page 26

Hank Wilson, a gay activist in San Francisco who founded the Committee to Monitor Poppers in 1981 , is candid about why poppers are so prevalent.

1994 November, SPIN, volume 10, number 8, page 87

When the original case-control studies of men with HIV infection were performed, poppers were associated with having AIDS, but there were concerns that this was the result of confounding with indices of sexual activity

2008, Scott D. Holmberg, Scientific Errors and Controversies in the U.S. HIV/AIDS, page 31