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▪ I. groper|ˈgrəʊpə(r)|
[f. grope v. + -er1.]
1. a. One who gropes, in various senses of the vb.
1567Drant Horace's Ep. i. xviii. F v, A groper after nouelties. 1693Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. II. 86 Those Gropers, who, to gather one according to their Mind, will spoil a hundred by the violent impression of their Unskillful Thumb. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Quality (1809) III. 26 A substitute in the want of knowledge, a groper in the want of light. 1781H. Swinburne Crts. Europe Last Cent. (1841) I. 379 A groper in politics, without sufficient steadiness or understanding to..carry through a great..plan. 1899Blackw. Mag. Feb. 348/1 Thou groper after vainglory.
b. slang. A blind man; the blindfolded player in the game of blind-man's-buff.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Gropers, blind Men. 1813R. H. in Examiner 17 May 315/2 A man..nearly approached by the darkened groper.
2. Naut. Channel groper, North Sea groper: a cruiser stationed in the Channel or the North Sea.
1830Marryat King's Own xiii, If he is an old channel groper, we shall have some difficulty. 1867in Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.
3. Old slang. A pocket.
1789G. Parker Life's Painter 130 Gropers, pockets.
4. A jocular appellation for a West Australian. So ˈGroperland, West Australia; also ˈGroperlander, a West Australian. Cf. sand groper (sand n.2 10).
1924Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush iii. 39 Western Australia is full of old prisoners, black fellers, and white ones too. The whites, born here, is called ‘gropers’, if you take me, sir. 1926J. Doone Timely Tips for New Austral., Groper, a West Australian. 1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 33 Groperland, Western Australia. 1945― Austral. Lang. x. 186 Western Australians.., groperlanders. 1949Geogr. Mag. Feb. 373 Groper, a Western Australian.
▪ II. groper
var. grouper. |