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Definition of Striper

1. Noun. A serviceman who wears stripes on the uniform to indicate rank or years of service. "He's a four-striper"

2. Noun. Caught along the Atlantic coast of the United States.

3. Noun. Marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone.

Definition of Striper

1. Noun. A device that applies stripes ¹

2. Noun. (fishing) The striped bass, ''Morone saxatilis'', a popular sport fish native to North America ¹

3. Noun. (military) A person who is authorized to wear a certain number of stripes on his or her uniform ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Striper

1. a food and game fish [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Striper

striped hyena striped killifish striped maple striped marlin striped muishond striped mullet striped racer striped shield bug striped shield bugs striped skunk

striped squirrel striped violet stripedness stripeless stripelike striper (current term) stripers stripes stripewise stripey

stripier stripiest stripiness striping stripings striplight striplike stripline stripling striplings

Literary usage of Striper

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Skilled Trades Service and Labor Service: Tentative Specifications Submitted by New York (N.Y.). Standards Bureau (1915)
"striper: The duties of stripers, which require that they shall be competent painters, ... Decorator, Grainer, Letterer, striper—$1200 to $1320 inclusive. ..."

2. Romantic Weekends the Carolinas & the Georgia Coast by Norman Renouf, Kathy Renouf (1999)
"Fully grown, a striper can weigh more than 45 Ibs. and offer an unmatched freshwater ... We recommend, therefore, that you call Ty Mathis striper Fishing, ..."

3. Descriptions of Occupations: Street Railways by United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Employment Service (1918)
"PAINTER, LETTERER AND striper PRISM Description: The letterer and striper does the finest and most careful work in car body painting. ..."

4. Report of the Richmond, Indiana, Survey for Vocational Education by Indiana State Board of Education, Richmond (Ind.). Board of Education, Indiana University, Robert Josselyn Leonard (1916)
"The striper must have a very well developed color sense, a knowledge of colors, ... The striper should possess all the s^cill of the various branches of the ..."

5. Industrial Education by United States Bureau of Labor, Charles Henry Winslow, Jesse C. Bowen (1911)
"... 1 band folding and cutting machine, 1 sweater machine, 1 glove machine, 1 automatic footer with high splice heel and double sole attachment, 1 striper, ..."

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