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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From grope + -er.
Noun
groper (plural gropers)
- Agent noun of grope: one who gropes.
- (US) An employee of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), especially one who performs inspections on passengers.
Etymology 2
Variant of grouper.
Noun
groper (plural gropers)
- (Australia) Any of several marine fish, especially the Queensland groper or giant grouper, Epinephelus lanceolatus, of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 230:Everybody knows that there are big groper in the Gulf of Carpentaria, but those that joined Norm Phantom on his journeys were the ones nobody else had ever seen.
- (New Zealand) hapuku wreckfish (Polyprion oxygeneios)
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Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
groper m or f
- indefinite plural of grop
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
groper f
- indefinite plural of grop