rope off

verb

roped off; roping off; ropes off

: to separate (an area) from another area with rope

The police roped off the street for the summer festival.

Part of the exhibit had been roped off.

Examples of rope off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Mind you, that was also by design — the west side of the stadium was roped off entirely, so that 50% of capacity was scrunched into one half of the building. —Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 12 Apr. 2026

These days, though, the surrounding area is roped off in fear that debris is increasingly likely to fall, owing to the tower’s growing slant. —Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026

Areas are roped off and dotted with signs warning of land mines, a hazard Cambodians know well after decades of civil war that ended in the late 1990. —ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026

The terrible action in private-asset managers as a few credit funds undergo stress is mostly being roped off as an isolated problem area without much impact on the core banking sector, for now. —Michael Santoli, CNBC, 23 Feb. 2026

Rhymes for rope off

• cerenkov
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• handoff
• kickoff
• layoff
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• markov
• payoff