Usually means: Unwanted, inappropriate touching of another.
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  1. gropes: Merriam-Webster
  2. gropes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. gropes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Gropes, gropes: Wordnik
  5. gropes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. gropes: Wiktionary
  7. gropes: Dictionary.com
  8. gropes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. gropes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. gropes: Idioms

(Note: See grope as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (grope)

verb:  (obsolete) To feel with or use the hands; to handle.
verb:  To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see.
verb:  To touch (another person) closely and (especially) sexually.
verb:  To intentionally and inappropriately touch or rub against another person, in such a manner as to make the contact appear accidental, for the purpose of one's sexual gratification.
verb:  (obsolete) To examine; to test; to sound.
noun:  (informal) An act of groping, especially sexually.
noun:  (obsolete) An iron fitting of a medieval cart wheel.
▸ Also see grope


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