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groper

noun
/ˈɡɹoʊpɚ/US/ˈɡɹoʊpə/UK

Etymology

Variant of grouper.

  1. inherited from grāpian
  2. inherited from gropien
  3. suffixed as groper — “grope + er”

Definitions

  1. Agent noun of grope

    Agent noun of grope: one who gropes.

  2. An employee of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), especially one who…

    An employee of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), especially one who performs inspections on passengers.

  3. Any of several marine fish, especially the Queensland groper or giant grouper,…

    Any of several marine fish, especially the Queensland groper or giant grouper, Epinephelus lanceolatus, of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

    • 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.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. hapuku wreckfish (Polyprion oxygeneios)

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for groper. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA