Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Slang A member of the armed forces, a cadet corps, or a commercial flight crew who wears stripes designating rank or length of service. Often used in combination.

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  • noun A device that applies stripes
  • noun fishing The striped bass, Morone saxatilis, a popular sport fish native to North America
  • noun military A person who is authorized to wear a certain number of stripes on his or her uniform

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a serviceman who wears stripes on the uniform to indicate rank or years of service
  • noun marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone
  • noun caught along the Atlantic coast of the United States

Etymologies

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stripe +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Yes | No | Report from Ethan3 wrote 39 weeks 20 hours ago nice catch. and the striper is pretty good too.

    Field & Stream 2009

  • But I swear, it looks to me like that striper is smiling!

    Field & Stream 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from Ethan3 wrote 39 weeks 20 hours ago nice catch. and the striper is pretty good too.

    Field & Stream 2009

  • But I swear, it looks to me like that striper is smiling!

    Field & Stream 2009

  • It's a little hard for many out-of-staters to think of Georgia as a striped-bass power-house, but consider these notes: The state-record striper is a mammoth 63-pounder taken from the Oconee River in 1967.

    15 Winter Fishing Destinations 2005

  • A striper is a striper, and the same fundamental rule applies here as everywhere else they're found: Find the baitfish, and you'll find the bass.

    15 Winter Fishing Destinations 2005

  • A high tide at or close to dawn is the perfect time almost anywhere in striper country, and it's easy to find the right fishing days with a tide chart.

    Stars and Stripers 2004

  • But that same lure sometimes produces no more than a heavy swirl or splash behind the plug -- meaning the striper is excited but not fooled.

    Bait and Switch 1999

  • But that same lure sometimes produces no more than a heavy swirl or splash behind the plug -- meaning the striper is excited but not fooled.

    Bait and Switch 1999

  • I use the "striper" trick, too, but not nearly so extensively as you!

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