English Dictionary

roper

/ˈɹəʊpə(ɹ)/

noun

Agent noun of rope; one who uses a rope, especially one who throws a lariat or lasso. / (dated) A ropemaker (a maker of ropes). / One who ropes goods; a packer.

The roper skillfully tied the knots.

意味（1）

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.

意味（2）

(dated) A ropemaker (a maker of ropes).

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

意味（3）

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.

意味（4）

(slang) 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.

意味（5）

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.

意味（6）

(slang) 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?

意味（7）

(gaming) 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.