Definition of "rope"

rope¹

/ɹəʊp/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural ropes
1. (uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
2. (countable) An individual length of such material.
3. A cohesive strand of something.
  Quotations
  Jimmy began to scream and ropes of spit shot from his mouth.
  2003, Dennis Lehane, Mystic River‎, page 138
  1. (slang, vulgar) A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation.
4. (dated) A continuous stream.
  Quotations
  The principle of any such device should be to pull on the vessel by a rope of water passing in at the bow and out at the stern.
  1852, John Bourne, A Treatise on the Screw Propeller: With Various Suggestions of Improvement, page 38
5. (baseball) A hard line drive.
6. (ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
7. (computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
8. (military, uncountable) A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.
9. (Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.
  Quotations
  The central strip of the loka, the Middle World, represents its smallest area, being only one rope wide and one hundred thousand leagues high, […]
  2001, “Review of Metaphysical Teaching”, in Nagendra Kr. Singh, editor, Encyclopaedia of Jainism‎, page 7522
10. (jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.
11. (nautical) Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
12. (archaic) A unit of length equal to 20 feet.
13. (slang) Rohypnol.
14. (slang, usually in the plural) Semen being ejaculated.
15. (with "the") Death by hanging.

rope²

/ɹəʊp/

verb
third-person singular simple present ropes, present participle roping, simple past and past participle roped
1. (transitive) To tie (something) with rope.
2. (transitive) To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
3. (intransitive) To climb by means of a rope or ropes.
  Quotations
  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.
  Quotations
  Let us not hang like roping icicles / Upon our houses' thatch.
  1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene v]
5. (incel slang, intransitive) To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.
  Quotations
  In figure 71, the poster Brahcel notes that he “almost roped” because he could not find the community […]
  2019, anonymous, quoted in Julia Rose DeCook, "Curating the Future: The Sustainability Practices of Online Hate Groups", dissertation submitted to Michigan State University, page 153
  ToxicAlcoholSyndrome explains that his, “dreams are all really depressing and vivid, so… I’m constantly in a bad mood and know in the back of my brain, I need to rope.”
  2020, Joshua A. Segalewitz, "'You Don't Understand... It's Not About Virginity': Sexual Markets, Identity Construction, and Violent Masculinity on an Incel Forum Board", thesis submitted to the University of Dayton, page 36
  Another man wrote that the only reason he hasn't “roped” (incel terminology for death by suicide) is he didn't want to ruin his family's Christmas.
  2021, Laura Bates, From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All, unnumbered page

rope³

/ɹəʊp/

noun
plural ropes
1. (in the plural) The small intestines.

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