roping

Verb

rope (third-person singular simple present ropes, present participle roping, simple past and past participle roped)

1. (transitive) To tie (something) with rope.
   • The robber roped the victims.

   Synonyms:

   tie, bind, secure

2. (transitive) To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
   • The cowboy roped the calf.

   Synonyms:

   lasso

3. (intransitive) To climb by means of a rope or ropes.
   • We roped down to the platform selected for the bivouac; set up our bags and brewed a reasonable meal.1984, G. F. Dutton, The Ridiculous Mountains, page 153
4. (intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
   • Let us not hang like roping icicles / Upon our houses' thatch.1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
5. (transitive) To pull or restrain (the horse one is riding) to prevent it from winning a race.
   • Others, a shade more advanced, have been known to bribe a jockey to "hold," "rope" a horse, or a stableman to poison or stupefy him.1882, Edwin Sharpe Grew, Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell, Arthur Cowper Ranyard, Knowledge...: A Monthly Record of Science (volume 1, page 132)
6. (Internet, intransitive) To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.
   • My life is a mess; I might as well rope.

   Synonyms:

   ropemaxx

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