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  • noun Plural form of roper.

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Examples

  • “A Classic Halloween Poem and Jump-Rope Rhyme”: Jump-ropers, remember the one that goes, “Down in the desert/Where the purple grass dies/There sat a witch …”?

    Halloween Poems and Picture-Book Fun for Children « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

  • I dressed in my favorite Johnny Cash T-shirt, jeans, turquoise ropers, and my army of one ball cap.

    Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011

  • If you really wanna take over the befuddling of the dipshits have at it as I have some jump ropers hanging about but still …

    Think Progress » Fox News commentator Geraldo Rivera criticizes Bret Baier’s Obama interview. 2010

  • “A Classic Halloween Poem and Jump-Rope Rhyme”: Jump-ropers, remember the one that goes, “Down in the desert/Where the purple grass dies/There sat a witch …”?

    2009 October 23 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

  • I dressed in my favorite Johnny Cash T-shirt, jeans, turquoise ropers, and my army of one ball cap.

    Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011

  • I dressed in my favorite Johnny Cash T-shirt, jeans, turquoise ropers, and my army of one ball cap.

    Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011

  • The Wild Turkey in my ropers sloshed with every step.

    No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010

  • I tugged on my skintight Rocky jeans with the leather lacing down the outside seams and slipped on my beat-up red Justin ropers.

    No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010

  • He spit a stream of tobacco juice next to my ropers.

    No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010

  • He spit a stream of tobacco juice next to my ropers.

    No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010

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