scoper

English

Etymology 1

From scope +‎ -er.

Noun

scoper (plural scopers)

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

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

Noun

scoper (plural scopers)

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

Anagrams

Pecors, corpes, Crespo, Scrope, corpse, copers, Pescor, Cosper

Latin

Verb

scōper

first-person singular present passive subjunctive of scōpō

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