striper
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- noun
- /ˈstraɪpər/
- US
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- And when menhaden are lacking, stripers and bluefish cannibalize more of their own young and turn on the young of other gamefish, increasing natural mortality on top of fishing mortality.
- striper fishing
- stripers and largemouth
- hybrid stripers
Examples
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Three- to six-year-old bay-dwelling stripers weigh 10 to 15 percent less on average than they did 30 years ago.
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My friend Yuki sent me an email the other day and asked if I wanted to fish for stripers at New Hogan Reservoir.
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World records set for stripers, too.
Fiction book (1992) -
Turtle Creek continues to produce some nice flounder and stripers.
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This is not the 30-pound striper Marty is so ticked off about.
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Remember, stripers swallow the head first as they don't have teeth and can swallow the head for an easy pickup.
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She spotted John three hundred yards away, waist-deep in the breakers, casting for stripers.
Fiction book (1996) -
Stripers now derive as little as seven percent of their nutrition from the most nutritious forage fish in the Atlantic.
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There is clear evidence that the average weight-at-length of stripers is in decline, and ample anecdotal testimony from veteran striper anglers to support it.
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We caught a big striper while fishing off the coast this weekend.
Synonyms
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A large fish with dark lines along its body that people eat and catch for sport
A large sea fish with dark stripes that swims upriver to lay eggs and is caught for food and sport
Compounds
- Archaic
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8.9
A young volunteer, often a girl or young woman, who helps with non-medical tasks in a hospital
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word striper comes from stripe ('a long thin line') and the ending -er, so it means 'one with stripes'. That's why a striper is the fish with dark horizontal stripes often caught by anglers.