Scoper

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who or that which scopes.

    "That's the role of scopers, to map out the limitations, parameters and dimensions of the problem and its likely solutions. Scopers tell us what now."

  2. 2
    Synonym of spastic (“stupid, clumsy person”). UK, dated, derogatory, offensive, slang

Synonyms

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spastic

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"That's the role of scopers, to map out the limitations, parameters and dimensions of the problem and its likely solutions. Scopers tell us what now."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From scope + -er.

Etymology 2

An allusion to the derogatory slur spastic, following the renaming of the National Spastics Society, a UK disability charity, to Scope in 1994.

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