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 , Moronesaxatilis , 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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Examples
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Yes | No | Report from Ethan3 wrote 39 weeks 20 hours ago nice catch. and the striper is pretty good too.
Field & Stream 2009
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But I swear, it looks to me like that striper is smiling!
Field & Stream 2009
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Yes | No | Report from Ethan3 wrote 39 weeks 20 hours ago nice catch. and the striper is pretty good too.
Field & Stream 2009
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But I swear, it looks to me like that striper is smiling!
Field & Stream 2009
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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I use the "striper" trick, too, but not nearly so extensively as you!
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