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roper
/ˈɹoʊpɚ/
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What does roper mean?
noun
- Agent noun of rope; one who uses a rope, especially one who throws a lariat or lasso.
- One who ropes goods; a packer.
- (slang) Synonym of outside man (“accomplice who locates a mark to be swindled by a confidence trickster”).
More meanings (8)
noun
- A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.
- (slang) An undercover informer.
- Any of a variety of monsters with tentacles that they use to capture victims.
- (dated) A ropemaker (a maker of ropes).
proper noun
- A surname.
- A town in Washington County, North Carolina, United States.
- The Roper River (a river in the Katherine Region, Northern Territory, Australia)
- (slang) Ngukurr (a town in Roper Gulf, Katherine Region, Northern Territory, Australia)
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɹoʊpɚ/
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
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One of the real tennis tacticians, a man who is to-day a veteran of many a notable encounter, yet still dangerous at all times, is H. Roper Barrett.
But, when he got to the Tower Wharf on his way back to his prison, and his favourite daughter, Margaret Roper, a very good woman, rushed through the guards again and again, to kiss him and to weep upon his neck, he was overcome at last.
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In these hours when life is ebbing, how those days when life was young Come back to us; how clearly I recall Even the yarns Jack Hall invented, and the songs Jem Roper sung; And where are now Jem Roper and Jack Hall?