What does "roper" mean?
Agent noun of rope; one who uses a rope, especially one who throws a lariat or lasso.
Roper
/ˈɹəʊpə(ɹ)/ name, noun, slang
name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Agent noun of rope; one who uses a rope, especially one who throws a lariat or lasso.
- Grammar: roper is listed as name, noun, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: lassoer, rope-maker, ropemaker.
- Useful contrasts: nonroper.
- Usage evidence: Structural biology professor David Roper of England's University of Warwick is part of the team that includes scientists in the United States and Australia sleuthing for novel agents to treat disease.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Agent noun of rope; one who uses a rope, especially one who throws a lariat or lasso. agent, form-of
"Instead of taking to the open and falling a prey to a roper, the calf lunged sideways and went under the horse-pasture fence."
- 2 a craftsman who makes ropes wordnet
- 3 A ropemaker (a maker of ropes). dated
"But Gideon Giles was no common man, although a roper."
- 4 a cowboy who uses a lasso to rope cattle or horses wordnet
- 5 One who ropes goods; a packer.
"I have seen 50 to 60 men doing this work, and the men vied with each other to see which could cap or rope the best; and if a bale was turned off from the capper that did not look well, some of the others would criticise it, and the same with ropers."
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- 6 a decoy who lures customers into a gambling establishment (especially one with a fixed game) wordnet
- 7 Synonym of outside man (“accomplice who locates a mark to be swindled by a confidence trickster”). slang
"The "roper" will inform the mark that such horses can't be picked out of the Form; what one needs is inside information."
- 8 A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.
"Any person who, in this city, lives idly and is a gambler, or roper, steerer or capper for any gambling house or room, or any gambling game, or who lives idly and has the reputation of being a gambler, or roper, steerer or capper for any gambling house or room, or any gambling game, shall be considered and treated as a vagrant."
- 9 An undercover informer. slang
"Supposing in a plant on a job a roper roped a man, who was, let us say, employed by the company, and maybe a member of the union, how much would he get after he was roped?"
- 10 Any of a variety of monsters with tentacles that they use to capture victims.
"The party ran into a statue of a roper, which somehow attacked them."
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
- 2 A town in Washington County, North Carolina, United States.
Synonyms
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Example
"Structural biology professor David Roper of England's University of Warwick is part of the team that includes scientists in the United States and Australia sleuthing for novel agents to treat disease."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "roper"?
Common synonyms include: lassoer, rope-maker, ropemaker.
How do you use "roper" in a sentence?
Structural biology professor David Roper of England's University of Warwick is part of the team that includes scientists in the United States and Australia sleuthing for novel agents to treat disease.
How do you pronounce "roper"?
Pronounced /ˈɹəʊpə(ɹ)/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English roper, ropere; equivalent to rope + -er.
Etymology 2
* As an English surname, from the noun roper * As a north/Low German surname for the town crier, from Middle Low German ropen (“to call”), from Old Saxon hrōpan.