Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which stoops.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who stoops.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
stoops . - noun One who searches for discarded winning
tickets at aracetrack .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who carries himself or herself with the head and shoulders habitually bent forward
- noun a person at a racetrack who searches for winning parimutuel tickets that have been carelessly discarded by others
Etymologies
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Examples
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A man, called a stooper, cashes in unused horse-track tickets.
Archive 2009-12-01 tgilli 2009
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A man, called a stooper, cashes in unused horse-track tickets.
On the fast track... tgilli 2009
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In North African culture, men who have sex with men are very common - but being the 'stooper' rather than the 'stabber' has negative social connotations.
Jihad For Love Newmania 2007
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Traced to the Medieval German höker, it translates as a "stooper" or "one stooping under a pack."
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Guernica Theodore Ross 2010
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Traced to the Medieval German höker, it translates as a "stooper" or "one stooping under a pack."
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Guernica Theodore Ross 2010
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In a must-read front page article in today's Times, Leonardo reveals everything about his work as a "stooper," collecting discarded tickets and running them through a ticket scanner "in a never-ending search for someone else's lost treasure."
Gothamist 2009
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Sorry, kinda got plans to drink myself into a stooper and try to lure a random skallywag to my house for some BTK.
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As an inveterate stooper-for-pennies, however, I've noticed a recent significant change (no pun intended) on the streets of Manhattan.
David Finkle: These Days It's Dimes That Are a Dime a Dozen 2009
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In close male friendships it is also common once the 'stabber' gets married for the 'stooper' to adopt this role with a new younger male partner until he, too, gets married.
Jihad For Love Newmania 2007
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In this case, the stooper profiled is Jesus Leonardo, who makes his living around an OTB parlor in New York.
Baltiblogs 2009
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