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Meaning of ROPY

Pronunciation:  'rowpee

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  (British informal) very poor in quality; "ropey food"; "a ropey performance"
  2. [adj]  forming viscous or glutinous threads
 
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 Synonyms: inferior, ropey, stringy, thick, thready
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Rop"y\, a.
capable of being drawn into a thread, as a glutinous
substance; stringy; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as ropy
sirup; ropy lees.
 

 

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