roper

About 0.91 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

Similar words

trevor ropemaker robemaker ropery ropewalker roap ropedancer roband robbin rippier

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