Skip to main content
Urban Dictionary Merch
Your favorite words on things you can wear, drink from, read, or give to a friend.
The Urban Dictionary Store sells gifts you’ll have to explain.

rope a dope

a strategy to appear weak to convince an opponent to attack and fall into a trap.

a joke that suggests one thought just to set up a twist.
Muhammad Ali and Tommy Smothers were both experts at rope a dope.
rope a dope by MichaelJonSnow March 22, 2010
Word of the Day on June 9, 2025

rope-a-dope 

Popularized by Muhammed Ali, a tactic of proctecting one's self during combat while an opponent wears himself out, and then unexpectedly lashing out.
Damn, that fool wasted all his ammo when I picked up all of those shields. I did the ol' rope-a-dope and destroyed him in under a minute
rope-a-dope by Cicatriz December 29, 2004

Pope rope a dope

Pontiff and a boxing term for leaning against the ropes taking hits and only swinging to land a good punch. Mohammad Ali was famous for the maneuver. Used together the two meanings define Pope Benedict.

When the Pope, holed up in the Vatican, says he is sorry every which way he can think of for reading words like, "violence," "sword," "threats of death," "evil," "murder" and "Jihad" when quoting from an obscure medieval manuscript where a Byzantine King is criticizing Muslim violence of that era, while Muslim leaders and fanatics from around the globe take their repeated punches at the Pope, murder a nun, bomb churches, demonstrate and burn effigies of the Pope in the streets, call for his execution, and threaten the Pope and Christians everywhere with death, the sane World, everyone else, observing it all scratches their heads in awe. A smart Pope is doing a rope a dope.
I watched it all on TV, the Pope apologizes while Muslims everywhere repeatedly attack him, murder a Nun and threaten the Church and I think, "Ya, right, just look, wow, its the pot calling the kettle black! I understand the Islamic radicals now. I like this Pope, he's our "Pope rope a dope!"
Pope rope a dope by MichelleTryson September 18, 2006

rope a dope

A police tactic involving trickery to bamboozle suspects into confessing.
Dude! Nobody "really" saw me do it, did they? Man, you "rope a doped" me.
rope a dope by The Foundation November 5, 2010

rope-a-dope 

A form of oral sex in which the male at first has very slow motion with his tongue inside the females vagina, letting her do all the work. After a while of working in this fashion, the male speeds up his tongue and executes a fast series of vertical and horizontal licks bringing the female to orgasm.
Daniel: I did the rope-a-dope to THIS and knocked her out cold!
Duncan: Dang... All I can do is eat THAT pink taco.
rope-a-dope by ThePinkTaco September 2, 2008

rope-a-dope 

The act of tying crack cocaine on the end of a rope, and making crack addicts chase it around the ghetto.
There's nothin to do. You guys wanna go downtown and play rope-a-dope?
rope-a-dope by Mikey T January 29, 2005
More from Urban Dictionary

briefcake 

"Did you check out the briefcake in courtroom C?"
briefcake by Ben Frey April 6, 2006
Word of the Day on November 3, 2026
Brought to public attention by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in the book on the fall of Richard Nixon, All The President’s Men, ratfucker was Nixon’s term for a political operative who sows chaos among opponents; an agent provocateur. It is thought to have originated among campus political rivalries at USC, and seems to have some usage in the US military.
Along with Nixon’s other ratfuckers, Roger Stone caused fights at otherwise peaceful Democratic Party protests to generate a false narrative that the Democrats were violent and dangerous.
Ratfucker by Ricky Ramjet November 2, 2017
Word of the Day on November 2, 2026

countrypolitan 

Term used to describe someone who is a mix of both rural (country) and urban (metropolitan) lifestyles/upbringings. He/she is typically equally comfortable in both settings and is able to seamlessly slip back and forth between the two, appreciating the characteristics of each.
That ol' gal of mine drives the 12 lane freeway during the week and a John Deere on the weekends. She likes opra and the Grand Ol' Opry. I love them countrypolitan women.
countrypolitan by MOChick November 7, 2006
Word of the Day on November 1, 2026

Witch Bath 

A bath consisting of a variety of slats, oils, soaps or any other added ingredients such as fruits, milks, herbs or any other spices for health or beautifying benifits.
She brought home alot of stuff and took it to the bathroom. She must be taking a witch bath.
Witch Bath by carnieboy30 October 26, 2020
Word of the Day on October 31, 2026

kinktober 

An excuse for people to write porn with different types of kinks throughout the month of October.

Smut Fanfiction
That chick doesn't write often but when she does, its for Kinktober.
kinktober by Kinkiest July 12, 2018
Word of the Day on October 30, 2026

proper lad 

a lad that is such a lad that he is a proper lad
person1:did you see bob
person2: ya he was a proper lad
Word of the Day on October 29, 2026
Load more