ROPE

[verb] [usually + adverb or preposition]I'll rope (= join with a rope) my horse to your car and pull you out. [T]The climbers roped up/roped themselves together. [I or T]If you rope an area off, you enclose it with ropes to keep people out.The police had roped off the scene of the crime. [M]If you rope someone in, you persuade them to do something for you that they did not really want to do.At the last minute we roped in a couple of spectators to complete the team. [M]If you rope someone into something you persuade them to do something.We roped a couple of spectators into playing for our team.