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roper

B2 noun

roper /ˈɹəʊpə(ɹ)/ nghĩa là người đóng gói hàng

Các nghĩa

  1. người đóng gói hàng

    One who ropes goods; a packer.

  2. kẻ ngoài cuộc

    Synonym of outside man (“accomplice who locates a mark to be swindled by a confidence trickster”).

    slang

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

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

  3. người dẫn khách

    A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.

    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.

  4. chỉ điểm viên

    An undercover informer.

    slang

    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.

  5. quái vật xúc tu

    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.

    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.

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