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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɹɒmpə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈɹɑmpɚ/
• 韻: -ɒmpə(ɹ)

語源 1

From romp +‎ -er.

名詞

romper (plural rompers)

1. Someone who romps or frolics.
   • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 316:

     For a brief spell in 1974, Polly was singing in blackface as Sarah Leone with a British reggae romper named Tony Jackson.

2. (nautical) A ship that has moved far ahead of a convoy.

   Coordinate term: straggler

語源 2

Ellipsis of romper suit.

名詞

romper (plural rompers)

1. A onesie.
   • 2021 May 4, Ruth La Ferla, “On That Bombshell Billie Eilish Cover for British Vogue”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Prompted to pose on her bed, [Tavi Gevinson] dressed in a skimpy romper, “pouting,” she recalled, “with heavily lined eyes and straightened blonde hair.”

派生語

• bubble romper

語源 3

From romper room.

動詞

romper (third-person singular simple present rompers, present participle rompering, simple past and past participle rompered)

1. (Ireland, historical, transitive) To abduct (a victim) to a room where they are tortured and murdered; associated with the Ulster Defence Association.
   • 2003, Martin Dillon, The Trigger Men: Assassins and Terror Bosses in the Ireland Conflict:

     James McCartan was about to be ‘rompered’, but not before those present poured themselves drinks.

派生語

• romper room