Meaning of Groper | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Agent noun of grope: one who gropes.
   agent, form-of
2. Any of several marine fish, especially the Queensland groper or giant grouper, Epinephelus lanceolatus, of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
   Australia
3. An employee of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), especially one who performs inspections on passengers.
   US
4. hapuku wreckfish (Polyprion oxygeneios)
   New-Zealand

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Examples

“[T]he Hand muſt likevviſe act its part, and concur therein [with the eye], tho' not to touch it [the fruit] roughly upon the Tree (nothing is more offenſive to me than thoſe Gropers, vvho, to gather one according to their Mind, vvill ſpoil a hundred by the violent impreſſion of their Unskillful Thumb) but I vvould have the Hand play its part in the manner I ſhall explain hereafter.”

“Everybody knows that there are big groper in the Gulf of Carpentaria, but those that joined Norm Phantom on his journeys were the ones nobody else had ever seen.”

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