grouper

¹ American  

[groo-per] / ˈgru pər /

noun

grouperer, plural groupers plural

1. any of various sea basses of the family Serranidae, especially of the genera Epinephelus and Mycteroperca, of tropical and subtropical seas.

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grouper ² American  

[groo-per] / ˈgru pər /

noun

1. a member of a group, as of tourists.

2. Slang. a member of a group of usually young and single persons who rent and share a house or apartment, as at a summer resort.

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grouper British  

/ ˈɡruːpə /

noun

1. a variant of groper

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• grouperer
  plural
• groupers
  plural

Etymology

Origin of grouper¹

First recorded in 1680–90, grouper is from the Portuguese word garupa, of uncertain origin

Origin of grouper²

First recorded in 1930–35; group + -er ¹

Example Sentences

“He’s going to three-Pete,” said 13-year-old Chicagoan Max Grouper, tipping Alonso with all the confidence of a fan three times his age.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 10, 2023

These are Grouper - there are hundreds of them in Su's pond.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2022

The second trick was more specific to the fleecy ballads that Harris records as Grouper, which sometimes conceal themselves in so much reverb and white noise that the music starts fudging your sense of distance.

From Washington Post • Oct. 25, 2021

“Shade,” her 12th full-length record as Grouper, compiles songs written over the last 15 years across the country.

From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2021

The Observer of Peoples has to be a Classifier, a Grouper, a Deducer, a Generalizer, a Psychologizer; and, first and last, a Thinker.

From Essays on Paul Bourget by Twain, Mark