rope

Meaning

Noun

1. Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
2. An individual length of such material.
3. A cohesive strand of something.
4. (slang) A cohesive strand of something.
5. A continuous stream.
6. A hard line drive.
7. A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
8. A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
9. A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.
10. A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.
11. A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.
12. Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
13. A unit of length equal to 20 feet.
14. (slang) Rohypnol.
15. (slang) Semen being ejaculated.
16. Death by hanging.

Verb

1. To tie (something) with rope.
2. To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
3. To climb by means of a rope or ropes.
4. To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
5. To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.

Concepts

rope

string

cord

cable

line

thread

twine

hawser

tether

vine

halter

lasso

hemp

tie

chain

leash

band

lariat

belt

wire

chaff

strand

Mexican valium

R-2

circle

forget me drug

roach

rophy

roofy

sling

chord

strap

fibre

fetter

clothes-line

bar

yarn

window

cable wire

steel cable

wire rope

rigging

lanyard

fasten

root

fishing line

braid

hempen cord

allowance

composure

margin

room

scope

surplus

time

fillet

thong

funicular

hobble

purchase

skipping-rope

climbing-rope

capital punishment

cigar

marijuana

twist

coir

cane

bind

file

joule

queue

row

ribbon

strand of wool

tape

spanking

whip

tie strap

bond

clothesline

selector

armoured rope

steel wire rope

wire cable

wire line

steel rope

steel strand rope

tendon

sinew thread

hair belt

shame

thick

swing

dragnet

thaw

heavy rope

age

size

ring

flunitrazepan

moor

laniard

tier

catch

harness

liane

bridle

painter

cordage

hay

m.j.

Columbian

Ghana

Indian hemp

Juanita

Kentucky blue

Lucas

Mary

Mary Ann

Mary Jane

Meg

Rose Marie

airplane

bud

ashes

baby

bale

bash

block

blonde

blue sage

boo

boom

broccoli

burrito

charge

cheeba

churus

coli

crazy weed

dagga

dew

ding

ditch

djamba

endo

fir

fine stuff

flower

fu

funk

gage

gange

gangster

gash

gauge

grass

grata

green goddess

greeter

grefa

greta

grifa

griff

has

herb

herba

homegrown

hooch

kali

kaya

kilter

kind

lima

limbo

loaf

lobo

loco

locoweed

m.o.

machinery

macon

mota

mother

moto

pat

pin

pod

poke

pot

red cross

red dirt

reefer

salt and pepper

scissors

seeds

sen

sess

shake

skunk

stack

stems

stink weed

supergrass

thirteen

thumb

torch

wheat

yeh

yerba

magic smoke

doobie

moocah

cochornis

Chicago green

Colorado cocktail

pocket rocket

muggles

love weed

viper's weed

chira

llesca

marley

dona Juana

gauge butt

aunt Mary

African bush

giggle smoke

Columbus black

drag weed

white-haired lady

esra

yellow submarine

jive stick

Pakistani black

lubage

mor a grifa

mooca

bullyon

don Jem

giggle weed

snop

duby

cosa

messorole

dawamesk

Texas tea

frajo

jay smoke

kiff

grass brownies

mooster

mutah

righteous bush

flower tops

gunja

Wacky terbacky

laughing grass

potten bush

killer weed

gunga

pretendo

durog

coliflor tostao

yesco

kgb

mutha

pretendica

sezz

fraho

sasfras

kumba

griffa

Mary weaver

dubbe

laughing weed

bo-bo

hanhich

zambi

pakalolo

sweet Lucy

rasta weed

mohasky

m.u.

Mary Jonas

wacky weed

bammy

queen Ann's lace

modams

canamo

draf weed

splim

Panama gold

Meggie

cheeo

dry high

Acapulco red

baby bhang

gunney

Panama cut

p.r.

smoke Canada

diambista

butter flower

African black

yesca

dinkie dow

manhattan silver

joy smoke

lakbay diva

vipe

canappa

Mary and Johnny

cavite all star

Indian boy

mootie

crying weed

cannabis tea

takkouri

rainy day woman

o.j.

burnie

muggie

Mexican red

griffo

moota

mootos

blowing smoke

siddi

lamb's bread

good giggles

bobo bush

black bart

black gunion

funny staff

railroad weed

bambalacha

ghanja

tex-mex

gungun

taima

doradilla

Mary Warner

yen pop

Texas pot

dona Juanita

chillums

Canadian black

duros

sugar weed

griefo

santa Marta

gold star

weed tea

sinse

light stuff

jolly green

carmabis

anchor chain

tieback

becket

loop 3

monofilaments

bindle

hilum

reticule

make string

net

(vine)

lashing

liana

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹəʊp/

Etymology

table
From Middle English rop, rope, from Old English rāp (“rope, cord, cable”), from Proto-West Germanic *raip, from Proto-Germanic *raipaz, *raipą (“rope, cord, band, ringlet”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁roypnós (“strap, band, rope”), from *h₁reyp- (“to peel off, tear; border, edge, strip”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots rape, raip (“rope”), Saterland Frisian Roop (“rope”), West Frisian reap (“rope, cord”), Dutch roop, reep (“rope, cord, ring, strip, bar”), German Low German Reep (“rope”), Swedish rep (“rope”), Danish reb (“rope”), Icelandic reipi (“rope”), Albanian rrip (“belt, rope”).