Definitions
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- n. A sporadic pronking behaviour in guinea pigs.
- n. An accidental chain reaction in which one explosion sets off others
Etymologies
Examples
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Yet more than 1700 of them have design flaws that could conceivably cause multiple warheads to explode one after another - an effect known as "popcorning" - according to a UK Ministry of Defence safety manual.
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Another issue is so-called "popcorning" which can occur during soldering.
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Very hard to find elephants and George Washington in even popcorning.
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This "would contribute to the prevention of popcorning and should be a design objective".
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The effects of a popcorning accident would be dire.
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However, a nuclear-weapons safety manual drawn up by the MoD's internal nuclear-weapons regulator argues that this standard single-point design might not be enough to prevent popcorning.
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Dehumidifer seems to be working, so tomorrow is popcorning the ceiling, foamcaulking the walls to the new ceiling, and insulation.
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We determined the root cause and we implemented corrective action, and we do not have the popcorning phenomenon occur any longer.
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And the tile damage was somewhat superficial, but because the popcorning -- popcorning was numerous, it represented a significant increase in the number of tiles that were being damaged, and hence when we got back to turn the vehicle around, we had a lot more work to do to repair tiles and to replace them.
hernesheir commented on the word popcorning
Popcorning is to guinea pigs as pronking or stotting is to gazelles. If you say so. And Boing Boing is an Internet presence.
November 28, 2011
qroqqa commented on the word popcorning
Yet more than 1700 of them have design flaws that could conceivably cause multiple warheads to explode one after another – an effect known as "popcorning" – according to a UK Ministry of Defence safety manual.
—New Scientist, 28 June 2008
(Not in OED 3rd ed.)
July 14, 2008