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plural wipers
Someone who wipes. quotations examples
So, Willy, let you and me be wipers / Of scores out with all men — especially pipers!
1842, Robert Browning, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”, in Dramatic Lyrics
Something, such as a towel, that is used for wiping. examples
Something, such as a windscreen wiper, that is designed for wiping. examples
A movable electric contact in some devices. examples
(nautical) A junior role in the engine room of a ship, someone who wipes down machinery and generally keeps it clean. examples
(obsolete, slang) An impertinent young man. quotations
I ask you now, ain't honesty a-written on my feechurs? / I say the wiper should be scorched who'd rob his feller-creatures.
1876, George Staunton Brodie, Vagrant Verses: And a Play, page 163
countable and uncountable, plural wipers
A hybrid fish variety artificially bred from eggs of striped bass (Morone saxatilis) fertilized with white bass (Morone chrysops) sperm, or the opposite combination. quotations examples
As is the customary method for catching wipers at Keith Sebelius Reservoir, the trio was trolling with crank baits.
1983, Kansas Fish, Game Commission, “Fishing”, in Kansas Wildlife, page 16
M. saxatilis X M. chrysops hybrids (wipers) are difficult to distinguish, showing intermediacy from parental types in basihyal tooth formation
2013 January 23, Texas State University San Marcos Department of Biology, “Morone saxatilis”, in Texas Freshwater Fishes
With good reason, wipers are among the most stocked hybrid gamefish in the United States. They won’t rival actual stripers for overall size, but wiper find a happy medium between the revered striper and the much smaller, pesky white bass.
2021 April 23, Stephen Klobucar, “The history and mystery of hybrid fishes”, in Meat Eater