ropes
Noun
- a strong line
- street names for flunitrazepan
- plural of rope
- Basic skills of a job.
Verb
- catch with a lasso
- fasten with a rope
- third-person singular simple present indicative of rope
Examples
- show the ropes, learn the ropes
Origin / Etymology
In the sense of skills, a now figurative use that originally referred to literal ropes.
The phrase “he knows the ropes” written on a seaman’s discharge meant that he was inexperienced and only familiar with a ship’s principal ropes.
Scrabble Score: 7
ropes: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordropes: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
ropes: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 8
ropes: valid Words With Friends Word