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rope-a-doping

rope-a-doping is the present participle and gerund of rope-a-dope.

Meaning of rope-a-dope

Verb

rope-a-dope (third-person singular simple present rope-a-dopes, present participle rope-a-doping, simple past and past participle rope-a-doped)

  1. (figuratively) To exhaust someone by stringing them along.
    • Willis rope-a-doped us all night.

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Questions about rope-a-doping

What is rope-a-doping the present participle and gerund of?
Rope-a-doping is the present participle and gerund of rope-a-dope.

Words near rope-a-doping in the dictionary

  1. rope's-ending
  2. rope's-ends
  3. rope-a-dope
  4. rope-a-doped
  5. rope-a-dopes
  6. rope-a-doping
  7. rope-house
  8. rope-houses
  9. rope-jump
  10. rope-jumps
  11. rope-ripe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rope-a-doping (page history and authors); rope-a-dope (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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