⇨ scope; scoper; scopeynoun an inept, clumsy or stupid individual. A rebranding of 'spastic' in line with the Spastic Society's 1994 name-change; the change to Scope was intended to avoid the 'most common use of the word "spastic" [which] has insidiously assumed misrepresentation that intends the word as an insult' UK, 2002