service stripe

1. 1.

   an insignia worn to indicate years of service

   Synonymshashmarkhash mark

   Broaderinsignia

Questions about service stripe

What does service stripe mean?

service stripe means "an insignia worn to indicate years of service".

What is another word for service stripe?

Close synonyms include hashmark, hash mark. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is service stripe a common word?

service stripe 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.