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verb (tr, adverb)

British to persuade to take part in some activity

US and Canadian to trick or entice into some activity

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Words nearby rope in

ropable, rope, ropeable, rope-a-dope, ropedancer, rope in, ropemaking, ropery, rope's end, rope socket, rope stitch

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How to use rope in in a sentence

This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.
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Her travel clique has been known to arrive at an airport, bags packed, passport-in-hand, within hours of spotting a deal.
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Earl Spencer adds, “Effectively, my great-grandfather sold his children to his father-in-law.”
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The lack of a gun is not likely to be a major problem for close-in air-to-air dogfights against other jets.
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But those weapons are of limited utility, especially during close-in fights.
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It occurred to him then, for the first time, that a third resource was open—he might cut the rope, and let the kite go free!
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
Such throats are trying, are they not?In case one catches cold; Ah, yes!
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Once the rope got tangled around Squinty's foot, and he jumped over it to get free.
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The commander-in-chief still kept him attached to the headquarter staff, and constantly employed him on special service.
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All this while Squinty was chewing on the apple which he had picked up from the ground after he had jumped over the rope.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum

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rope in

Also, rope into. Lure or entice someone into doing something, as in We didn't want to spend the night there, but we got roped in by my lonely aunt, or The salesman tried to rope us into buying some worthless real estate. These expressions allude to catching an animal by throwing a rope around it. [Mid-1800s]

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