groper
1[ groh-per ]
/ ˈgroʊ pər /
|
noun
a person or thing that gropes.
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Nearby words
- grooved,
- grooved fricative,
- grooving saw,
- groovy,
- grope,
- groping,
- gropingly,
- gropius,
- gropius, walter,
- gropper
Origin of groper
1groper
2[ groh-per ]
/ ˈgroʊ pər /
noun
a large, purplish food fish, Achoerodus gouldii, inhabiting waters off Australia and New Zealand, characterized by an enormous gape.
Origin of groper
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Examples from the Web for gropers
You see, that's what we gropers after the light are trying to make possible.
The Return of Peter Grimm|David BelascoHe was continually surrounded at his work by a school of gropers, averaging a foot in length.
The boots are for one's own guidance; the toque illuminante is to show other gropers in the darkness that one's coming.
groper
grouper
/ (ˈɡrəʊpə) /
noun plural -er or -ers
any large marine serranid fish of the genus Epinephelus and related genera, of warm and tropical seasAlso called: garoupa
Word Origin for groper
C17: from Portuguese garupa, probably from a South American Indian word
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