Roper

Quick meaning: Roper is a noun meaning Agent noun of rope; one who uses a rope, especially one who throws a lariat or lasso.

Meaning

Agent noun of rope; one who uses a rope, especially one who throws a lariat or lasso.

More Meanings

1. One who ropes goods; a packer.
2. A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.
3. (gaming) Any of a variety of monsters with tentacles that they use to capture victims.
4. (dated) A ropemaker (a maker of ropes).
5. (slang) Synonym of outside man (“accomplice who locates a mark to be swindled by a confidence trickster”).
6. (slang) An undercover informer.

Example Sentences

But Gideon Giles was no common man, although a roper.

I'm a roper — mostly tie-down, but I do some team, too.

Instead of taking to the open and falling a prey to a roper, the calf lunged sideways and went under the horse-pasture fence.

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).

Word Forms

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Synonyms for roper

Depending on context, synonyms include lugger, picker-up, roper-in, runner, steerer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ropemaker, robemaker, ropery, ropewalker, roap, ropedancer.

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