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troper

UK/ˈtɹəʊ.pə/US/ˈtɹoʊ.pɚ/

troper noun: one who tropes.

Noun (1)

troper (plural tropers)

  1. One who tropes.
    Synonyms:
    tropist
  2. A book of tropes (phrases or verses added to the Mass when sung by a choir).
  3. (slang) A contributor to the wiki website TV Tropes.
    • Since its [TV Tropes’] founding in 2004, more than 42,000 people have volunteered to be “tropers” like Barbara—a mixture of fans, writers, educators and amateur academics smitten by pop culture and accessing their inner Joseph Campbell. […] There’s a section called “Troper Tales,” about the ways...2010 February 28, Zachary Pincus-Roth, “Feel like you have seen this all before?”, in Los Angeles Times, page D10
    • Thus, TV Tropes was born, an online encyclopaedia, which allows open collaboration among its contributors (the “tropers”): anyone can add pages, and edit or delete existing ones. Registration is needed for access, but it is free and instant. […] On the site, each trope and each work has its own...2012 April, Linda Kata Börzsei, Literary Criticism in New Media: A critical analysis of the website Television Tropes and Idioms and the place of literature in digital culture, Bachelor’s Thesis...

Noun (2) capitalized: Troper

Troper (plural Tropers)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of troper (“a contributor to the wiki website TV Tropes”).
    • As for TV Tropes, I would need to be more familiar with them to identify them in a film. However, I imagine that it's a lot of fun to watch a movie with other Tropers and be calling them out as you identify them. "Loser Protagonist!" "Running Gag!"2011 November 17, Suzan, “"Copacabana" TV Tropes page is up”, in alt.fan.barry-manilow (Usenet), archived from the original on 14 Jun 2025
    • This Troper finds himself using Gintama “Zura ja nai, Katsurada!” as a swear, does this also count as a Gosh Darn It to Heck?2019, Rowan Elizabeth Arbuthnott Gardiner, quoting Troper Tales, “Positive and Neutral Attitudes”, in ‘Weeaboo Japanese’: Exploring English-Japanese Language-Mixing in Online Japanese Popular Culture...

Examples of troper in a sentence

  • Thus, TV Tropes was born, an online encyclopaedia, which allows open collaboration among its contributors (the “tropers”): anyone can add pages, and edit or delete existing ones.2012 April, Linda Kata Börzsei, Literary Criticism in New Media: A critical analysis of the website Television Tropes and Idioms and the...
  • As collaborators (known as “tropers”) at TVtropes.org have written, “It’s not entirely clear how sentient she is, but the Scoobies seem a little unnervingly cavalier about how they treat her.”[2023, Madeline Muntersbjorn, “Dismembering (the) Buffybot”, in Alyson R. Buckman, Juliette C. Kitchens, Katherine A. Troyer, editors...

Synonyms of troper

Forms of troper

pluraltropers
pluralTropers

Origin of troper

From trope + -er.

Questions about troper

What does troper mean?
Troper means one who tropes.
How do you use troper in a sentence?
Thus, TV Tropes was born, an online encyclopaedia, which allows open collaboration among its contributors (the “tropers”): anyone can add pages, and edit or delete existing ones.
What part of speech is troper?
Troper is a noun.
How do you pronounce troper?
Troper is pronounced /ˈtɹəʊ.pə/ (UK).
What is the plural of troper?
The plural of troper is tropers.

Words near troper in the dictionary

  1. tropeless
  2. tropeolin
  3. tropept
  4. tropeptic
  5. tropepts
  6. troper
  7. tropers
  8. tropery
  9. tropes
  10. tropey
  11. trophaeal

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