ropes

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.^[1]

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊps/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹəʊps/
• Rhymes: -əʊps

• Audio (US):

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ropes

1. plural of rope
2. (in the plural, with the) Basic skills of a job.

   show the ropes, learn the ropes

ropes

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of rope

• Prose, S'pore, reops, Soper, ERPOs, spore, Poers, Spero, Perso-, soper, Peros, preso, prose, OPers., poser, pores, Poser, repos, opers, pro se

ropes

1. plural of ropa

rópes

1. accusative plural of rópė (“turnip”)

ropes

1. plural of rop (“rope”)