rope

Less common meanings

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   climbverbintransitive

   To climb up or down using a rope.

   The rescue team roped down into the narrow canyon.

   We rope down into the cave whenever we explore it.

   UsageUsually used with down: they roped down the cliff.

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   hangingnouncountable or uncountablewith the

   Death caused by hanging, especially as a punishment.

   Back then, robbers could be sent to the rope.

   Many criminals feared the rope more than years in prison.

   UsageUsed in phrases like escape the rope, face the rope, or sentenced to the rope.

   Similargallows, noose, hanging, scaffold

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   baseball hitnouncountable or uncountable

   In baseball, a ball hit hard and fast in a nearly straight line.

   Like a string pulled tight: the ball flies almost straight.

   He hit a rope right past the pitcher's head.

   Her swing sent a rope into left field.

   UsageSay a batter hits a rope.

   Similarliner, laser

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   long necklacenouncountable or uncountable

   A very long necklace, usually about a meter long or more.

   Like a long string of beads that reaches down to your stomach.

   She wore a long rope of pearls to the gala.

   The rope of beads hung all the way down to her waist.

   UsageSay a rope of pearls.

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   stretch into threadsverbintransitive

   To stretch out into long, thin threads when poured or pulled.

   Like melted cheese stretching into long strings when you pull a slice.

   Heat the sugar until it begins to rope off the spoon.

   The melted cheese will rope when you lift a slice.

   Similarstring, thread

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    kill yourselfverbslangintransitive

    To take your own life, especially by hanging.

    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.

    2021, Laura Bates, From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All

    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.”

    2020, Joshua A. Segalewitz, "'You Don't Understand... It's Not About Virginity': Sexual Markets

    UsageIt can hurt people. In neutral writing, say died by suicide.

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    nounarchaiccountable or uncountable

    An old measure of length, the same as twenty feet.

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    noun

    In rhythmic gymnastics, a rope the gymnast swings and jumps through, or the routine done with it.
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    nounslang

    The strong sleeping drug Rohypnol, sometimes misused in crimes.
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    verbdated

    To hold back the horse you are riding on purpose so it does not win a race.

    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.

    1882, Edwin Sharpe Grew, Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell
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    noundialectal

    The small intestines, the long coiled tube inside the belly.
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    noun

    In computing, a way of storing text in small linked pieces instead of one long block.
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    noun

    Thin strips of foil dropped from planes to confuse enemy radar.
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    nounrare

    A very large unit of distance equal to how far a god flies in six months.