groper

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹoʊpɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹoʊpə/

From grope +‎ -er.

groper (plural gropers)

1. Agent noun of grope: one who gropes.
2. (US) An employee of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), especially one who performs inspections on passengers.

Variant of grouper.

groper (plural gropers)

1. (Australia) Any of several marine fish, especially the Queensland groper or giant grouper, Epinephelus lanceolatus, of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
   • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 230:

     Everybody knows that there are big groper in the Gulf of Carpentaria, but those that joined Norm Phantom on his journeys were the ones nobody else had ever seen.

2. (New Zealand) hapuku wreckfish (Polyprion oxygeneios)

• baldchin groper (Choerodon rubescens)
• bass groper (wreckfish; Polyprion americanus, syn. Polyprion moeone)

• Prerog.

groper m or f

1. indefinite plural of grop

groper f

1. indefinite plural of grop