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[ UK /pˈɒpɪt/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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.
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