scoper
English
Etymology 1
From scope + -er.
Noun
scoper (plural scopers)
- One who or that which scopes.
- 2008, Duncan Brown, Influencer Marketing, page 42:
- That's the role of scopers, to map out the limitations, parameters and dimensions of the problem and its likely solutions. Scopers tell us what now.
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Etymology 2
An allusion to the derogatory slur spastic, following the renaming of the the National Spastics Society, a UK disability charity, to Scope in 1994.
Noun
scoper (plural scopers)
- (UK, slang, derogatory, offensive, dated) Synonym of spastic (“stupid, clumsy person”).
Anagrams
- Cosper, Crespo, Pecors, copers, corpes, corpse
Latin
Verb
scōper
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of scōpō