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goat roper

goat roper noun: a hick.

Noun

goat roper (plural goat ropers)

  1. A hick.
    • Another goat roper with an attitude, tanked up on cheap whiskey.1998, Catherine Anderson, Forever After, page 18
    • His wife has an absurdly long name (“Betty Lou Thelma Liz”), and he drinks cheap beer and cheap liquor, drives a fifteen-year-old pickup truck (probably out of necessity, not choice), and is a self-described “goat roper” who spends his free time in a honky-tonk.2011, Travis D. Stimeling, Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks

Examples of goat roper in a sentence

  • The carny snapped around—snap!—and gave the goat roper a stare so electric with menace that Genevieve expected the colored lightbulbs that trimmed the booth to buzz and dim.2015, Lou Berney, The Long and Faraway Gone: A Novel:
  • I mean, if a goat roper from West Texas can handle it without having a nervous breakdown, so can others.2015, Jimmy R. Watson, Big Jesus: A Pastor’s Struggle with Christology, page 30:

Forms of goat roper

pluralgoat ropers

Origin of goat roper

Euphemistic version of goat raper

Questions about goat roper

What does goat roper mean?
Goat roper means a hick.
How do you use goat roper in a sentence?
The carny snapped around—snap!—and gave the goat roper a stare so electric with menace that Genevieve expected the colored lightbulbs that trimmed the booth to buzz and dim.
What part of speech is goat roper?
Goat roper is a noun.
What is the plural of goat roper?
The plural of goat roper is goat ropers.

Words near goat roper in the dictionary

  1. goat raper
  2. goat rapers
  3. goat rodeo
  4. goat rodeos
  5. goat rope
  6. goat roper
  7. goat ropers
  8. goat ropes
  9. goat shit
  10. goat tower
  11. goat water

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