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  • You could argue that popper's hard or semi-hard bodies do the same as the plastic lip on plug baits.

    Putting the "Fly" in Flyfishing? 2009

  • You could argue that popper's hard or semi-hard bodies do the same as the plastic lip on plug baits.

    Putting the "Fly" in Flyfishing? 2009

  • [3] CHANGE THE HOOKS Switching to trebles one size larger (on most poppers that will be size 4 or 6) won't affect the popper's action but will make it easier to hook fish.

    Tweak Your Bass Lures to Create Effective Custom baits 2006

  • The racist pig pill popper's stint in rehab is of much satisafaction to Stern, as it is to millions of other Americans, tired of his sanctimony and judgments.

    THE NEWS BLOG 2003

  • With all popper's money, we've never been able to get a real good footing.

    The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various

  • He has chucked art and is now in popper's business.

    Of Human Bondage 1919

  • He has chucked art and is now in popper's business.

    Of Human Bondage 1915

  • Percy was mommer's angel boy with the sunny curls, who was to be raised a gentleman and to be “shielded from the vulgar surroundings and coarse associations of her husband's youth,” and he was proud popper's pet, whose good times weren't going to be spoiled by a narrow-minded old brute of a father, or whose talents weren't going to be smothered in poverty, the way the old man's had been.

    Old Gorgon Graham Lorimer, George H 1903

  • She bought French clothes; her brothers took the hint from her, and hied them to Paris and Vienna to pursue their studies; penetrated to Pekin and Constantinople, and hunted the tiger in the jungles of India, while popper's pudgy purse grew more and more plethoric despite the drafts upon it.

    The Opinions of a Philosopher Robert Grant 1896

  • She also made the pertinent discovery that her popper's purse was pudgy with the proceeds of wheat, corn, dry goods, and railway shares.

    The Opinions of a Philosopher Robert Grant 1896

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