groper
1[groh-per]
- a person or thing that gropes.
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1groper
2[groh-per]
- a large, purplish food fish, Achoerodus gouldii, inhabiting waters off Australia and New Zealand, characterized by an enormous gape.
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Historical Examples of gropers
You see, that's what we gropers after the light are trying to make possible.
The Return of Peter GrimmDavid Belasco
He 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
- any large marine serranid fish of the genus Epinephelus and related genera, of warm and tropical seasAlso called: garoupa
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Word Origin for groper
C17: from Portuguese garupa, probably from a South American Indian word
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