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scoper

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English

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Etymology 1

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From scope +‎ -er.

Noun

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scoper (plural scopers)

  1. 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.

Etymology 2

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An allusion to the derogatory slur spastic, following the renaming of the National Spastics Society, a UK disability charity, to Scope in 1994.

Noun

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scoper (plural scopers)

  1. (UK, slang, derogatory, offensive, dated) Synonym of spastic (stupid, clumsy person).

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Latin

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Verb

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scōper

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of scōpō