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Game fish
Answer for the clue "Game fish ", 7 letters:
striper
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Word definitions for striper in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"striped bass," 1945, from stripe (n.1).
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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 [syn: striped bass ] marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver ...
Usage examples of striper.
I ever tell you about that candy striper that was murdered up at that old Penitente church back in forty-two?
He was remembering the student nurses, those two candy stripers whose evil luck it had been to be in attendance on the morning Pascow had been brought in dying.
A stream of candy stripers holding floral arrangements—each one bigger than the last—came pouring into my room, until every last available flat surface, including the floor, was covered with roses and daisies and sunflowers and orchids and carnations and flowers I could not identify, all overflowing from these vases and making the room smell sickly sweet.
As a striper, Stanley had painted the single line, with a drooping striping brush, around the automobiles moving through the plant as they got to him.
He knew what that meant, as did everyone else in town with a boat, a gaff and a loaf of Wonderbread to use as bait: the stripers were running!