looper

[ loo-per ]
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noun
  1. a person or thing that loops something or forms loops: The strands of wire are coiled by an automatic looper.

  1. a hook-shaped mechanism in a sewing machine that enables stitching by drawing the upper and lower threads together.

  2. Baseball. blooper (def. 3a): He was robbed of an RBI looper by the speediest shortstop in the league.

Origin of looper

1
First recorded in 1725–35; loop1 + -er1

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How to use looper in a sentence

  • I have been told that President Kruger was on this historical trek, a Voor-looper, or little boy who guides the leading oxen.

    South African Memories | Lady Sarah Wilson
  • These looper caterpillars cannot shorten nor lengthen their segments at will, as other caterpillars, but only bend their bodies.

    The Insect World | Louis Figuier
  • It covers the ground pretty quickly, buckling and unbuckling by turns, very much after the manner of the looper caterpillar.

    The Life of the Fly | J. Henri Fabre
  • It is a "looper," greyish at first and turning green later, and nearly an inch long when full grown.

    Roses and Rose Growing | Rose Georgina Kingsley
  • The gates having been opened to them, a voet-looper, a courier, went to inform Messire de Lumey of their coming.

British Dictionary definitions for looper

looper

/ (ˈluːpə) /


noun
  1. a person or thing that loops or makes loops

  2. another name for a measuring worm

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