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🎫 Ticket searcher 🧓 Person with bent back
stooper

stooper

9.9
A person who looks for winning betting tickets thrown away at a racetrack
  • noun
  • /ˈstuːpər/
  • Archaic
: buscador de boletos
  • The stooper spent hours scanning the grandstand for forgotten winning tickets.

Examples

  • At the racetrack, a stooper picked up a discarded ticket and was thrilled to discover it was a winner.

  • After the last race, the stooper managed to find two tickets worth fifty dollars.

  • Some racetracks have posted signs warning stoopers to stay clear of restricted areas.

  • The stooper found a winning ticket on the ground.

  • Many stoopers gather at the racetrack every weekend.

  • The stooper carefully searched through the crowd after the race, hoping to find lost winning tickets.

  • Every Saturday, the stooper would patrol the betting area looking for valuable tickets left behind.

Surface Forms

stooper singular
stoopers plural

Morphology

stooper = stoop (semi-transparent) = stoop + er

The word is built transparently from 'stoop' + '-er', but the racetrack-specific sense is a specialized extension of the basic idea of bending down to pick things up.

Etymology

Stooper comes from the word stoop, which means 'bend down' or 'lean over'. So a stooper at a racetrack is someone who bends over to pick up lost or thrown-away tickets.