rope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rōp
ipa: /ɹəʊp/
enpr: rōp
ipa: /ɹoʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: ropes
form: roping
form: roped
form: roped
Etymology: From Middle English ropen, rope (“to form ropes”), from rop (“rope”); see above.
Senses: examples: text: The robber roped the victims.
glosses: To tie (something) with rope.
examples: text: The cowboy roped the calf.
glosses: To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
examples: text: We roped down to the platform selected for the bivouac; set up our bags and brewed a reasonable meal.
ref: 1984, G. F. Dutton, The Ridiculous Mountains, page 153:
glosses: To climb by means of a rope or ropes.
examples: text: Let us not hang like roping icicles / Upon our houses' thatch.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
glosses: To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
examples: text: Others, a shade more advanced, have been known to bribe a jockey to "hold," "rope" a horse, or a stableman to poison or stupefy him.
ref: 1882, Edwin Sharpe Grew, Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell, Arthur Cowper Ranyard, Knowledge...: A Monthly Record of Science (volume 1, page 132)
glosses: To pull or restrain (the horse one is riding) to prevent it from winning a race.
examples: text: In figure 71, the poster Brahcel notes that he “almost roped” because he could not find the community […]
ref: 2019, anonymous, quoted in Julia Rose DeCook, "Curating the Future: The Sustainability Practices of Online Hate Groups", dissertation submitted to Michigan State University, page 153
text: ToxicAlcoholSyndrome explains that his, “dreams are all really depressing and vivid, so… I’m constantly in a bad mood and know in the back of my brain, I need to rope.”
ref: 2020, Joshua A. Segalewitz, "'You Don't Understand... It's Not About Virginity': Sexual Markets, Identity Construction, and Violent Masculinity on an Incel Forum Board", thesis submitted to the University of Dayton, page 36
text: Another man wrote that the only reason he hasn't “roped” (incel terminology for death by suicide) is he didn't want to ruin his family's Christmas.
ref: 2021, Laura Bates, From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All, unnumbered page:
text: My life is a mess; I might as well rope.
glosses: To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.
Synonyms: sense: tie with rope
word: tie
sense: tie with rope
word: bind
sense: tie with rope
word: secure
sense: throw a rope around
word: lasso
sense: kill oneself
word: ropemaxx
word: commit suicide
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from rope (verb)
word: ropable
sense: terms derived from rope (verb)
word: ropeable
sense: terms derived from rope (verb)
word: rope-a-dope
sense: terms derived from rope (verb)
word: roped
sense: terms derived from rope (verb)
word: rope in
sense: terms derived from rope (verb)
word: rope into
sense: terms derived from rope (verb)
word: rope off
sense: terms derived from rope (verb)
word: roper
sense: terms derived from rope (verb)
word: rope together