roper
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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Agent noun of rope; one who uses a rope, especially one who throws a lariat or lasso.
— Instead of taking to the open and falling a prey to a roper, the calf lunged sideways and went under the horse-pasture fence.
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A ropemaker (a maker of ropes).
— But Gideon Giles was no common man, although a roper.
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One who ropes goods; a packer.
— 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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Synonym of outside man (“accomplice who locates a mark to be swindled by a confidence trickster”).
— The "roper" will inform the mark that such horses can't be picked out of the Form; what one needs is inside information.
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A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.
— Any person who, in this city, lives idly and is a gambler, or roper, steerer or capper for any gambling house or room, or any gambling game, or who lives idly and has the reputation of being a gambler, or roper, steerer or capper for any gambling house or room, or any gambling game, shall be considered and treated as a vagrant.
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An undercover informer.
— Supposing in a plant on a job a roper roped a man, who was, let us say, employed by the company, and maybe a member of the union, how much would he get after he was roped?
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Any of a variety of monsters with tentacles that they use to capture victims.
— The party ran into a statue of a roper, which somehow attacked them.
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词汇关系
词源
From Middle English roper, ropere; equivalent to rope + -er.
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