dick vs roper

dick

noun
  • A detective, esp. the one who works in police, a police officer. 

  • The penis. 

  • Sexual intercourse with a man. 

  • Absolutely nothing. 

  • A highly contemptible person; a jerk. 

verb
  • To have sexual intercourse with. 

  • To mistreat or take advantage of somebody (often with around or up). 

num
  • Ten, in Cumbrian sheep counting. 

roper

noun
  • An undercover informer. 

  • One who ropes goods; a packer. 

  • Synonym of outside man (“accomplice who locates a mark to be swindled by a confidence trickster”) 

  • Any of a variety of monsters with tentacles that they use to capture victims. 

  • A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in. 

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