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  • noun Plural form of groper.

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Examples

  • Mass transit riders everywhere will nod in recognition at the stories about drunk and / or smelly passengers, icky "gropers," loud and obnoxious cell-phone users and those hard-to-avoid "let me tell you my life story" seatmates.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2008

  • Mass transit riders everywhere will nod in recognition at the stories about drunk and / or smelly passengers, icky "gropers," loud and obnoxious cell-phone users and those hard-to-avoid "let me tell you my life story" seatmates.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2008

  • Mass transit riders everywhere will nod in recognition at the stories about drunk and / or smelly passengers, icky "gropers," loud and obnoxious cell-phone users and those hard-to-avoid "let me tell you my life story" seatmates.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2008

  • Despite the online conveniences, when a bus finally arrives it will still be packed as tightly as a carton of Ikea furniture, an environment inviting only to pickpockets and gropers, and hardly designed to bring out the best in a citizenry of short tempers and sharp elbows.

    Riding Public Transport, It's L'Avventura Francis X. Rocca 2011

  • Still, his ideas and style have gained national attention, so I braved the TSA gropers at New York's LaGuardia airport and hopped a flight to South Florida to talk to him.

    Jeb to GOP: How to Appeal to Hispanics Mary Anastasia O'Grady 2011

  • So one must truly wonder what is happening to Japanese culture where gangs of gropers (known as chikan, the term meaning groping, touching, rubbing and illicit photo taking) stalk trains to inappropriately touch women.

    Japanese Gropers: Molestation Hits a New Low « Colleen Anderson 2009

  • So one must presume that these gropers pick lines with a bit less restriction as no one would be able to even move their hands on the crushing commuter lines.

    Japanese Gropers: Molestation Hits a New Low « Colleen Anderson 2009

  • I almost feel sorry for her, if all the gropers from my past showed up to ruin my party I'd take my toys and go home too - and collect per diem.

    In Big Shocker, Palin Resigns As Governor 2010

  • This would be in accord with American interests, and it would do more for "homeland security" than a thousand airport gropers.

    Andrew Levine: Israel: Obama's Other Capitulation Andrew Levine 2010

  • This would be in accord with American interests, and it would do more for "homeland security" than a thousand airport gropers.

    Andrew Levine: Israel: Obama's Other Capitulation Andrew Levine 2010

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