Troper
noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 One who tropes.
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of troper (“a contributor to the wiki website TV Tropes”). alt-of
"As for TV Tropes, I would need to be more familiar with them to identify them in a film. However, I imagine that it's a lot of fun to watch a movie with other Tropers and be calling them out as you identify them. "Loser Protagonist!" "Running Gag!""
- 3 A book of tropes (phrases or verses added to the Mass when sung by a choir).
- 4 A contributor to the wiki website TV Tropes. slang
"Since its [TV Tropes’] founding in 2004, more than 42,000 people have volunteered to be “tropers” like Barbara—a mixture of fans, writers, educators and amateur academics smitten by pop culture and accessing their inner Joseph Campbell. […] There’s a section called “Troper Tales,” about the ways tropes have shown up in the tropers’ real lives. […] He [Fast Eddie] thought up the site [TV Tropes] during a discussion on Buffistas.org, a community of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” enthusiasts, a group of whom became the first tropers."
Synonyms
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More examples"Since its [TV Tropes’] founding in 2004, more than 42,000 people have volunteered to be “tropers” like Barbara—a mixture of fans, writers, educators and amateur academics smitten by pop culture and accessing their inner Joseph Campbell. […] There’s a section called “Troper Tales,” about the ways tropes have shown up in the tropers’ real lives. […] He [Fast Eddie] thought up the site [TV Tropes] during a discussion on Buffistas.org, a community of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” enthusiasts, a group of whom became the first tropers."
Etymology
From trope + -er.
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