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lopers

lopers is the plural of loper.

Meaning of loper

Noun (1)

loper (plural lopers)

  1. One who or that which lopes; a runner; a leaper.
    • Wolves are very intelligent animals, and they are lopers and they are survivors.2000, Marilyn Elkins, August Wilson: A Casebook
  2. A swivel placed at one end of the ropewalk, with the whirl being at the opposite end.

Noun (2)

loper (plural lopers)

  1. (Southwestern, US, dialectal) A wolf, especially a grey or timber wolf.
    • When I was still some distance above the ford, about a dozen prairie wolves and one loper* wolf ran up from the water. They told me that there were no Indians near here or they would not be here; and they were not here long, either. [...] the big loper left on a slow gallop [...]
    • Loper, corruption of Sp. lobo, wolf.1905 April 22, C. Blanco, “Flanking a Wolf”, in Forest and Stream, page 314

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Proper noun capitalized: Lopers

Lopers

  1. (plural) plural of Loper

Questions about lopers

What is lopers the plural of?
Lopers is the plural of loper.
What part of speech is lopers?
Lopers is a proper noun.

Words near lopers in the dictionary

  1. Lopera
  2. loperamide
  3. Loperas
  4. Loperena
  5. loperimide
  6. lopers
  7. lopes
  8. Lopez
  9. Lopez Jaena
  10. Lopezcruz
  11. Lopezcruzes

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