candy striper

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   a volunteer worker in a hospital

   Broadervolunteer

Questions about candy striper

What does candy striper mean?

candy striper means "a volunteer worker in a hospital".

Is candy striper a common word?

candy striper is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.