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- noun A
sporadic pronking behaviour inguinea pigs . - noun An accidental
chain reaction in which oneexplosion sets off others
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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.
Archive 2008-06-01 Not a sheep 2008
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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.
Are you concerned about "popcorning"? Not a sheep 2008
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Are you concerned about "popcorning"? Not a sheep 2008
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Another issue is so-called "popcorning" which can occur during soldering.
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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.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway zorinth 2009
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The effects of a popcorning accident would be dire.
Are you concerned about "popcorning"? Not a sheep 2008
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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.
Are you concerned about "popcorning"? Not a sheep 2008
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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.
Archive 2008-06-01 Not a sheep 2008
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This "would contribute to the prevention of popcorning and should be a design objective".
Are you concerned about "popcorning"? Not a sheep 2008
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
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
TankHughes commented on the word popcorning
A video of guinea pigs popcorning, via my guinea pig owner coworker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjC94EhAs00
April 12, 2016