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grooper

grooper is the archaic form of grouper.

Meaning of grouper

Noun (1)

grouper (plural groupers or grouper)

  1. Any of various large food and game fishes of the subfamily Epinephelinae, especially the genera Epinephelus and Mycteroperca, which inhabit warm seas.

Noun (2)

grouper (plural groupers)

  1. One who groups things.
  2. (dated) A groupie.
    • There was also a little roundfaced brunette named Marilyn who told me she used to be a teenie grouper hanging out with a rock'n'roll group called The Wild Flowers but now she was mainly with Bobby Petersen.1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →OCLC, page 8

Forms of grooper

pluralgroopers

Questions about grooper

What is grooper the archaic form of?
Grooper is the archaic form of grouper.

Words near grooper in the dictionary

  1. groomzilla
  2. groomzillas
  3. Groonland
  4. groop
  5. grooped
  6. grooper
  7. groopers
  8. grooping
  9. groops
  10. Groot
  11. Grootfontein

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grooper (page history and authors); grouper (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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