Meaning of Roper | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Agent noun of rope; one who uses a rope, especially one who throws a lariat or lasso.
   agent, form-of
2. A surname.
3. A ropemaker (a maker of ropes).
   dated
4. A town in Washington County, North Carolina, United States.
5. One who ropes goods; a packer.
6. Synonym of outside man (“accomplice who locates a mark to be swindled by a confidence trickster”).
   slang
7. A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.
8. An undercover informer.
   slang
9. Any of a variety of monsters with tentacles that they use to capture victims.

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Examples

“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.”

“About thirty per cent of all the women employed in the packing plant⟳ are in the sausage department. They work⟳ as linkers, tie-ers, ropers and hangers; help⟳ in the preparation of the raw materials, mix⟳ spices, and wash⟳ pans.”

“The diggers pay⟳ their "ropers" $10/bu for "littlenecks" and $1/bu for "cherrystones." On good days, each digger may gross almost $600. After paying the roper, this leaves him with about $500 a day before other expenses are taken out.”

“The "roper" will inform⟳ the mark⟳ that such horses can't be picked out of the Form⟳; what one needs is inside information.”

“Here's how it usually goes: You're forced to rely⟳ on the only tow truck driver in the entire county, who turns out to be a roper for the local inbred family of serial killers.”

“For example, one person may have⟳ a specialty in cooling off the mark⟳, while another is able to lure in the mark⟳ with ease; these people may be referred to as the “roper” or the “outside man”.”

“What have⟳ you got—a store con? Shall you be needing a roper?”

“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.”

“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.”

“His old partner Allen Jones hired him as a roper for his gambling operation located across the street from the St. Charles Hotel.”

“He first appeared among St. Louis sporting men as a “roper” and venturesome player against the bank.”

“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?”

“Such an operative might also be the contact⟳ for one or more "missionaries" or labour spies. The roper who was sent for was Louis M. Wendell.”

“By 1876, however, he was well launched on a career as a professional informer, or “roper,” for the Secret Service.”

“The party ran into a statue of a roper, which somehow attacked them.”

“Stone ropers are distant relatives of the common roper though the two races are do not (as far as sages know⟳) associate with one another.”

“I understand⟳ this to mean⟳ that passive Wisdom (Perception)—and even Searching—will never reveal⟳ a roper for what it is as long as it holds still. Its Stealth skill comes into play⟳ only if it's moving. Thus, a stationary roper takes its opponents by surprise⟳, as long as its eye is closed and its tendrils retracted until it strikes.”

“Moments ago, vines had shot from the ground to lash at us; I'd thought at first that they were the tentacles of a worm or roper monster, but the leaves revealed that we were dealing·with some kind of plant⟳ creature.”

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