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Striper

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Noun

1. striper

a serviceman who wears stripes on the uniform to indicate rank or years of service

Example Sentences:
'he's a four-striper'

2. striped bass, striper

caught along the Atlantic coast of the United States

3. roccus saxatilis, rockfish, striped bass, striper

marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Striper

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noun
military slang
an officer who has a stripe or stripes on his or her uniform, esp in the navy
a two-striper (lieutenant)

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Striper

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noun
1.  Slang Mil
any enlisted person, or a naval officer, who wears a stripe (sense 3) or stripes
usually in hyphenated compounds meaning “one wearing (a specified number of) stripes”
a four-striper
2. 
striped bass

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Striper

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n.
1. 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: a three-striper; a four-striper.
2. See striped bass.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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