loper

[< lope move with an easy, bounding gait + - er]

West

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a mixture of Canadian French, Cree and, sometimes English spoken by the Métis of the older generation.

See: Coyote(def. 1)

Quotations

1963

The few ranchers . . . had overcome . . . the depredation of the "lopers," the grey wolves of the plains.