[
UK
/ɹˈəʊpi/
]
ADJECTIVE
- of or resembling rope (or ropes) in being long and strong
- forming viscous or glutinous threads
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(British informal) very poor in quality
ropey food
a ropey performance
How To Use ropey In A Sentence
- He is looking decidedly ropey. Times, Sunday Times
- He devoured some duck and turkey cat food while I administered a flea treatment, because he was starting to look ropey again.
- In the open kitchen, Chinatown veterans, who go by Mr. Chen (shown here) and Mr. Gao, stretch dough into ropey noodles, available thick or thin. Mid-Day Hand-Pulled Noodle
- We're drowning under vast quantities of ropey information, and none the wiser for the experience.
- The Black Cats boss says the ropey ref made two major blunders which cost his side all three points. The Sun
- But the first year in London was pretty ropey. Times, Sunday Times
- I saw the opening 20 minutes or so of the original cut on VHS, but it was ropey and I never got around to finishing it.
- This is a subject close to my heart and I will do whatever is within my power to fight for the rights of … Bit ropey on the literacy side of things, what with ‘allot’ being a verb meaning to allocate or hand out. Literacy News – 880th Edition « News « Literacy News
- It was somewhere we had visited on art college trips where, apart from the odd art gallery, the only Parisian experience we had was stumbling back through the red light district to our ropey hotel.
- ropey food
