grouper

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English[edit]

a giant grouper (Epinephelus lanceolatus)

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Etymology 1[edit]

From Portuguese garoupa (grouper). Compare garrupa.

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grouper (plural groupers or grouper)

  1. Any of various large food and game fishes of the subfamily Epinephelinae, especially the genera Epinephelus and Mycteroperca, which inhabit warm seas.
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Etymology 2[edit]

group +‎ -er

Noun[edit]

grouper (plural groupers)

  1. One who groups things.
  2. (dated) A groupie.
    • 1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Bantam, published 1997, →ISBN, page 5:
      There was also a little roundfaced brunette named Marilyn who told me she used to be a teenie grouper hanging out with a rock'n'roll group called The Wild Flowers but now she was mainly with Bobby Petersen.

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  • IPA(key): /ɡʁu.pe/
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grouper

  1. to group (to put together to form a group)

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