striper

English

Etymology

  • (device): From stripe (verb) +‎ -er (agent noun suffix).
  • (fish): From stripe (noun) +‎ -er (relational suffix).
  • (military): From stripe (noun) +‎ -er (suffix denoting a person to whom a certain number of something applies).

Pronunciation

  • (rhotic) IPA(key): /ˈstɹaɪpɚ/
  • (non-rhotic) IPA(key): /ˈstɹaɪpə/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

striper (plural stripers)

  1. A device that applies stripes.
    We rented a line striper for the parking lot.
  2. (fishing) The striped bass, Morone saxatilis, a popular sport fish native to North America.
    I caught a striper today.
  3. (military, in combination) A person who is authorized to wear a certain number of stripes on his or her uniform.
    • 1956, Louis Reichers, The Flying Years[1], page 110:
      He's a four-striper, a group captain.

See also

Anagrams

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

striper m or f

  1. indefinite plural of stripe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

striper f

  1. indefinite plural of stripe

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Stripper or English stripper.

Noun

striper n (plural stripere)

  1. stripper

Declension

Declension of striper
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative striper striperul stripere striperele
genitive-dative striper striperului stripere striperelor
vocative striperule striperelor

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /strîper/
  • Hyphenation: stri‧per

Noun

strȉper m anim (Cyrillic spelling стри̏пер)

  1. a maker of comic strips; cartoonist

Declension

Declension of striper
singular plural
nominative striper striperi
genitive stripera stripera
dative striperu striperima
accusative stripera stripere
vocative striperu striperi
locative striperu striperima
instrumental striperom striperima