Roper

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.”

2. isim A ropemaker (a maker of ropes).

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

3. isim 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.”

4. isim 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.”

5. isim A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.

   “Ropers like the one he'd sent packing would never steer him to such a highclass joint. So he kept giving the ropers the shove while he watched to see arriving customers point the way.”

6. isim 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?”

7. isim 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.”

8. özel isim A surname.
9. özel isim A town in Washington County, North Carolina, United States.