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Roper
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- 1 A surname.
- 2 A town in Washington County, North Carolina, United States.
- 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."
Etymology
From Middle English roper, ropere; equivalent to rope + -er.
* 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.
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