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say it: STRAHY-pur
striper is a noun meaning "a serviceman who wears stripes on the uniform to indicate rank or years of service". It is pronounced /ˈstɹaɪpɚ/ — STRAHY-pur. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a serviceman who wears stripes on the uniform to indicate rank or years of service
“he's a four-striper”
caught along the Atlantic coast of the United States
marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for striper come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.