Definitions for stripes

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stripes stripe

Spelling: [strahyp]

IPA: /straɪp/

Stripes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 237 anagrams from letters in stripes (eiprsst).

Definitions for stripes

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.
10. a strip of magnetic material on which information may be stored, as by an electromagnetic process, for automatic reading, decoding, or recognition by a device that detects magnetic variations on the strip:

verb (used with object)

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

Origin of stripes

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

Examples for stripes

Now I'd earned my stripes and I was just like them, and I realized it wasn't what I wanted at all.

There was black-and-white paint on his body; the stripes of the Koshare do not come off easily.

Here, in the bush, all our tools come from the land of the Stars and stripes.

I found these specimens in the same locality with the B. stripes.

The sanctimonious, the puritans of all stripes, and the killjoys in general raise the issue annually.

I hang out with artsy theater people, with angry political activists, and with nerds of all stripes.

Billy is out of the hospital and wearing my old sergeant's stripes.

The giant retailer is realizing its dream of getting into the banking business, which should terrify populists of all stripes.

From the top the stars and stripes had been broken to the breeze.

Those that earned their stripes by going to prison and taking the case are the ones that are admired.