Usually means: Resembling or characteristic of rope.
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  1. ropy: Merriam-Webster
  2. ropy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ropy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ropy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ropy: Vocabulary.com
  6. ropy: Wordnik
  7. ropy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ropy: Wiktionary
  9. ropy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ropy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ropy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ropy: Dictionary.com
  13. Ropy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. ropy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. ropy: Rhymezone
  16. Ropy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. ropy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. ropy: FreeDictionary.org
  19. ropy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. ropy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ropy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. ropy: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ropy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. ropy: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See ropier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ropy)

adjective:  Resembling rope in appearance or texture, used especially of muscles that are thick or hard to the touch.
adjective:  Capable of forming rope-like or thread-like structures.
adjective:  (of milk or another liquid) Slimy, as after the action of Enterobacter aerogenes in syrup.
adjective:  (UK, Ireland, colloquial) Of poor quality; in poor health.

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