Definitions for stripe

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stripe stripe

Spelling: [strahyp]

IPA: /straɪp/

Stripe is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 179 anagrams from letters in stripe (eiprst).

Definitions for stripe

noun

1. a relatively long, narrow band of a different color, appearance, weave, material, or nature from the rest of a surface or thing:
2. a fabric or material containing such a band or bands.
3. a strip of braid, tape, or the like.
4. stripes. a number or combination of such strips, worn on a military, naval, or other uniform as a badge of rank, service, good conduct, combat wounds, etc. Informal. status or recognition as a result of one's efforts, experience, or achievements:
5. a strip, or long, narrow piece of anything:
6. a streak or layer of a different nature within a substance.
7. style, variety, sort, or kind:
8. Also called magnetic stripe. Movies. a strip of iron oxide layer on the edge of a film that is used for recording and reproducing a magnetic sound track.
9. a stroke with a whip, rod, etc., as in punishment.

verb (used with object)

1. to mark or furnish with a stripe or stripes.

Origin of stripe

1620-30; Middle Dutch or Middle Low German strīpe; see strip², stripe²

Examples for stripe

The third stripe is the same, but, of course, the colors are different.

They look fearsome on the surface, and, yes, I and others of my stripe complain about the Democrats a lot.

stripe: a longitudinal streak of color different from the ground.

There was a suit of pyjamas of Hamilton's which had a stripe very near, but not quite.

His shirt is blue with a stripe of sunrise pink, and the collar to match.

Profiteers of every stripe were involved in the contraband cotton trade, including many army officers.

There were low-slung skirts, exposed midriffs and jutting hips, column dresses, and every kind of stripe you could imagine.

You will now find the wool has descended to the wide part of the stripe.

Africa has skipped a technological generation, bypassing the landlines that stripe our Western skies for the wireless way.

New moms and dads of every stripe want their kids to grow up healthy and happy and successful.