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Ropey

adjective
1.
Of or resembling rope (or ropes) in being long and strong.  Synonym: ropy.
2.
Forming viscous or glutinous threads.  Synonyms: ropy, stringy, thready.
3.
(British informal) very poor in quality.  Synonym: ropy.  "A ropey performance"





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"Ropey" Quotes from Famous Books



... scrambled up, that particular image was gone, and Tweel was in a twist of black ropey arms, just as when I first saw him. He'd missed a vital point in the beast's anatomy, but was jabbing away desperately with ...
— Valley of Dreams • Stanley Grauman Weinbaum


Words linked to "Ropey" :   U.K., thick, rope, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Britain, United Kingdom, Great Britain, colloquialism, UK, inferior


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