What is Grope And Hope?
1.
Referring to a crude technique of courting. Usually involves stalking around the dance floor chatting up (in the broadest sense) women indiscriminantly. Often best deployed during the latter stages of a night.
Often has the prefix ten-to-(insert closing time of club) referring to the last ditch nature of the whole affair.
The ten-to-two grope and hope
"Haven't pulled yet, will have try the old grope and hope"