[
UK
/pˈɒpɪt/
]
NOUN
- a mushroom-shaped valve that rises perpendicularly from its seat; commonly used in internal-combustion engines
How To Use poppet In A Sentence
- There has never been an indication that this poppet was prone to failure. Another Launch Delay for STS-119 - NASA Watch
- She doesn't seem to be making any progress and her leg is still so weak she can't walk at all, poor poppet. CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
- When I do a spell, I whip out a candle, make a poppet, and I chant.
- My poor, strange, stoic little poppet, trapped inside her own body, her own shell of an existence.
- There is cynicism at work every time politicians draft in some forgotten singer or soap poppet to do their dirty work.
- He rang me up half an hour ago and stormed at me for telling the fib - except that Stephen doesn't storm, he's too much of a poppet. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
- The English may often be laughable -- with reference to gourds (guards), a "poppet" (puppet) government and "spatial fours" (special forces) -- but it does the job. Selling the Taliban
- This is Thailand after all, isn't it, my poppet.
- If the people reading the misinformation are not stupid, they'll figure out that there's more to this than poppets and candle-spells.
- Even your average manufactured pop poppet has to work harder than her boy-band counterpart, who can rely on looks alone to generate pubescent squeals.