groper UK /ˈɡɹoʊpə/US /ˈɡɹoʊpɚ/ noun4 •Agent noun of grope: one who gropes. •(US) An employee of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), especially one who performs inspections on passengers. •(Australia) Any of several marine fish, especially the Queensland groper or giant grouper, Epinephelus lanceolatus, of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.Everybody knows that there are big groper in the Gulf of Carpentaria, but those that joined Norm Phantom on his journeys were the ones nobody else had ever seen. — 2006 •(New-Zealand) hapuku wreckfish (Polyprion oxygeneios) formsgropers