romper

plural rompers

1. Someone who romps or frolics.

   For a brief spell in 1974, Polly was singing in blackface as Sarah Leone with a British reggae romper named Tony Jackson.

   1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 316

2. nauticalA ship that has moved far ahead of a convoy.

plural rompers

1. A onesie.

   Prompted to pose on her bed, [Tavi Gevinson] dressed in a skimpy romper, “pouting,” she recalled, “with heavily lined eyes and straightened blonde hair.”

   2021 May 4, Ruth La Ferla, “On That Bombshell Billie Eilish Cover for British Vogue”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

present singular third person rompers · participle present rompering · participle past rompered · past rompered

1. IrelandhistoricaltransitiveTo abduct (a victim) to a room where they are tortured and murdered; associated with the Ulster Defence Association.

   James McCartan was about to be ‘rompered’, but not before those present poured themselves drinks.

   2003, Martin Dillon, The Trigger Men: Assassins and Terror Bosses in the Ireland Conflict