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striper
  1. n. 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 [syn: striped bass]

  3. marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone [syn: striped bass, Roccus saxatilis, rockfish]

  4. [also: stiper]

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Usage examples of "stiper".

Almost unseen in a narrow valley at the foot of the mountain, stand the village and church of Ratlinghope, the centre of a parish numbering about three hundred souls only, but which stretches over miles of mountain country, embracing a portion of the wild mining district of the Stiper Stones.