Wiper

Definitions

1. Someone who wipes.
2. A hybrid fish variety artificially bred from eggs of striped bass (Morone saxatilis) fertilized with white bass (Morone chrysops) sperm, or the opposite combination.
   countable, uncountable
3. Something, such as a towel, that is used for wiping.
4. Something, such as a windscreen wiper, that is designed for wiping.
5. A movable electric contact in some devices.
6. A program or process that erases data.
7. A junior role in the engine room of a ship, someone who wipes down machinery and generally keeps it clean.
8. An impertinent young man.
   obsolete, slang

Equivalents

11 more languages

العربيةممسحممسحةمنشفة

Bosanskibrisačvisiloбрисач

Danskvisker

Esperantoviŝilo

Suomipyyhepyyhinpyyhkäisykosketinpyyhkijä+ 1 more

Galegobaetarodelo

Hrvatskibrisačvisiloбрисач

Italianotergicristallo

日本語ワイパー

Русскийдворникполотенцесалфеткатряпка+ 1 more

Српскиbrisačvisiloбрисач

Examples

“So, Willy, let⟳ you and me be wipers / Of scores out with all men — especially pipers!”

“Using her hands like⟳ windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow⟳ away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face⟳. She grew claustrophobic.”

“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.”

“As is the customary method for catching wipers at Keith Sebelius Reservoir, the trio was trolling with crank baits.”

“M. saxatilis X M. chrysops hybrids (wipers) are difficult to distinguish, showing intermediacy from parental types in basihyal tooth formation”

“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.”

CEFR level