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Noun: striper  strI-pu(r)
  1. A serviceman who wears stripes on the uniform to indicate rank or years of service
    "he's a four-striper"
     
  2. Caught along the Atlantic coast of the United States
    - striped bass
     
  3. Marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone
    - striped bass, Roccus saxatilis, rockfish

Derived forms: stripers

Type of: bass[2], man, military man, military personnel, sea bass, serviceman, servicewoman

Part of: genus Roccus, Roccus

Encyclopedia: Striper