different between groper vs gropes

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???o?p?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???o?p?/

Etymology 1

From grope +? -er.

Noun

groper (plural gropers)

1. Agent noun of grope; one who gropes.
2. An employee of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA), especially those who perform inspections on passengers.

Etymology 2

Variant of grouper.

Noun

groper (plural gropers)

1. (Australia) Any of several marine fish, especially the Queensland groper or giant grouper, Epinephelus lanceolatus, of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
   • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 230:

     Everybody knows that there are big groper in the Gulf of Carpentaria, but those that joined Norm Phantom on his journeys were the ones nobody else had ever seen.

2. (New Zealand) hapuku wreckfish (Polyprion oxygeneios)

Derived terms

• baldchin groper (Choerodon rubescens)
• bass groper (wreckfish; Polyprion americanus, syn. Polyprion moeone)

Anagrams

• Prerog.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

groper m or f

1. indefinite plural of grop

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

groper f

1. indefinite plural of grop

English

Noun

gropes

1. plural of grope

Verb

gropes

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grope

Anagrams

• GOPers, Gosper