ropes
Meanings
noun
- plural of rope
- Basic skills of a job.
verb
- third-person singular simple present indicative of rope
name
- A surname.
Pronunciation
Word forms
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.
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