roper

Meanings

Plural: ropers

Noun

• a decoy who lures customers into a gambling establishment (especially one with a fixed game)
• a cowboy who uses a lasso to rope cattle or horses
• a craftsman who makes ropes
• Agent noun of rope; one who uses a rope, especially one who throws a lariat or lasso.
• A ropemaker (a maker of ropes).
• One who ropes goods; a packer.
• Synonym of outside man (“accomplice who locates a mark to be swindled by a confidence trickster”).
• A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.
• An undercover informer.
• Any of a variety of monsters with tentacles that they use to capture victims.

Synonyms

lugger, outside man, picker-up, rope-maker, ropemaker, roper-in, runner, steerer

Related Words

goat roper, top-roper