roper

Meaning

Agent noun of rope; one who uses a rope, especially one who throws a lariat or lasso.
A ropemaker (a maker of ropes).
One who ropes goods; a packer.
(slang) Synonym of outside man (“accomplice who locates a mark to be swindled by a confidence trickster”)
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.

rope-maker

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɹəʊpə(ɹ)/

From Middle English roper, ropere; equivalent to rope + -er.

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rope

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.

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