ropes
Meaning
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- plural of rope
- Basic skills of a job.
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɹoʊps/
Etymology
In the sense of skills, a now figurative use that originally referred to literal ropes. The phrase “he knows the ropes” written on a seaman’s discharge meant that he was inexperienced and only familiar with a ship’s principal ropes.
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rope
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- Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
- An individual length of such material.
- A cohesive strand of something.
- (slang) A cohesive strand of something.
- A continuous stream.
- A hard line drive.
- A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
- A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
- A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.
- A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.
- A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.
- Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
- A unit of length equal to 20 feet.
- (slang) Rohypnol.
- (slang) Semen being ejaculated.
- Death by hanging.
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