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scoper en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From scope + -er.

Meanings

  1. One who or that which scopes.
    • 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. 2008, Duncan Brown, Influencer Marketing, page 42:

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scoper en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

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

Meanings

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

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Synonyms

spastic

wikipedia: Scope (charity)