ropy
- a of or resembling rope (or ropes) in being long and strong
- s forming viscous or glutinous threads
- s (British informal) very poor in quality
- I spend my final day in the city lounging at another cluttered teahouse, chewing ropy strips of yak jerky that's sold at spotless new supermarkets in flavors like Sichuan mala spice .
- McGregor, with his ropy slimness and Scots accent, looks to be attempting to channel early Sean Connery (including the line "Something big just came up," from an early James Bond .
- Some of Munch's paintings notably The Scream, 1893, with its genderless homunculus squalling in loneliness on a bridge against the thick ropy sky of eveningare among the .