ope

intj

1. (Midwestern-US, US)An exclamation of surprise; oops.

   “Ope! Sorry about that.”

   “Ope, let me just squeeze past ya there.”

   “We're Midwesterners. We like long walks through frozen cornfields. Ope! Watch out!”

adj

1. (dialectal, poetic)Open.

   “Arriving there, as did by chaunce befall, / He found the gate wyde ope […].”

   “We are all weary — faint — set ope the doors — I will to bed! — To-morrow —”

   “On Sunday heaven's gate stands ope.”

verb

1. (ambitransitive, dialectal, poetic)To open.

   “Ere I ope his letter, / I pray you, tell me how my good friend doth.”

   “The hour's now come, the very minute bids thee ope thine ear; obey and be attentive.”

   “There came into many a burgher's pate / A text which says that heaven's gate / Opes to the rich at as easy rate / As the needle's eye takes a camel in!”

   “An order asserted itself, and the hoods on the furnaces were oped wide, and a final march was organized. The wails of the injured and the roars of the dead-on-the-march overwhelmed the tinny speakers in the cell, and they all watched as nearly one thousand people reduced themselves to a few frantic hundred in less than an hour, then settled into a sustained orgy of battery, rapine and rape with no end in sight but the total depopulation of the entire facility.”

noun

1. (West-Country)An alley or narrow passage (an opening between houses, buildings, etc).

   “Tonkin's Ope”

   “It formed part of the extensive network of opes across the city which used to carry dock workers down to the quay for work on the boats in the bustling Port of Truro.”

   “Opes / A characteristic that Truro shares with other Cornish towns are the narrow passageways which often form shortcuts between streets. […] These include Roberts Ope, Tippet's Backlet (Tippet was the owner of a fulling mill), Coombe's Lane, Pearson's Ope, Tonkin's Ope, Swifty's Ope, Nalder's Court, Job's Court and Carne's Ope, although this last has now been blocked off by building extensions. Perhaps the most memorable is Squeeze Guts Alley (see separate entry).”

2. (Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, slang, uncountable)Clipping of operations, in terms of an organization.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of octylphenol ethoxylate.

   “The remaining 20% of the market consists of octylphenol ethoxylates (OPE) and other lesser-known alkylphenols.”