goat roper

English

Etymology

Euphemistic version of goat raper

Noun

goat roper (plural goat ropers)

1. A hick.
   • 1998, Catherine Anderson, Forever After, page 18:

     Another goat roper with an attitude, tanked up on cheap whiskey.

   • 2011, Travis D. Stimeling, Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks:

     His wife has an absurdly long name (“Betty Lou Thelma Liz”), and he drinks cheap beer and cheap liquor, drives a fifteen-year-old pickup truck (probably out of necessity, not choice), and is a self-described “goat roper” who spends his free time in a honky-tonk.

   • 2015, Lou Berney, The Long and Faraway Gone: A Novel:

     The carny snapped around—snap!—and gave the goat roper a stare so electric with menace that Genevieve expected the colored lightbulbs that trimmed the booth to buzz and dim.

   • 2015, Jimmy R. Watson, Big Jesus: A Pastor’s Struggle with Christology, page 30:

     I mean, if a goat roper from West Texas can handle it without having a nervous breakdown, so can others.

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