sloper
Americannoun
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a person or thing that slopes.
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Tailoring. a basic pattern developed on paper by drafting or in cloth by draping, but with seam allowances omitted, used as a tool to create other patterns.
Etymology
Origin of sloper
Example Sentences
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She “scrabbled, thrutched, clawed, and humped her way up the volume, then threw out right to a bowling-ball sloper, cut her feet, pendulumed out beneath it, and matched it,” writes Mr. Tallent.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
If a miner held out for money, they had to yield; and if they were malicious, they marked him as a sloper and dismissed him the first when a depression came.
From Recent Developments in European Thought by Various
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