roper
/ˈɹəʊpə(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.07 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
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Meaning
noun
Agent noun of rope; one who uses a rope, especially one who throws a lariat or lasso.
noun
Synonym of outside man (“accomplice who locates a mark to be swindled by a confidence trickster”).
Slang
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "Instead of taking to the open and falling a prey to a roper, the calf lunged sideways and went under the horse-pasture fence."
- "I'm a roper — mostly tie-down, but I do some team, too."
- "After a roper flanks a calf (picks it up and lays it down on the ground oh so very gently), he/she decides to wrap one time or two times prior to the Hooey (the Hooey is the half hitch that locks your tie together)."
- "But Gideon Giles was no common man, although a roper."
- "A roper's wife, for instance, was able to fool her incredibly gullible husband while having an affair with a prior literally right under the roper's nose, the guilty pair having sex while they lay together in the same bed as the sleeping roper."
- "I have seen 50 to 60 men doing this work, and the men vied with each other to see which could cap or rope the best; and if a bale was turned off from the capper that did not look well, some of the others would criticise it, and the same with ropers."
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