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Wiper
//ˈwaɪpɚ// noun, slang
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Someone who wipes.
"So, Willy, let you and me be wipers / Of scores out with all men — especially pipers!"
- 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
"As is the customary method for catching wipers at Keith Sebelius Reservoir, the trio was trolling with crank baits."
- 3 a mechanical device that cleans the windshield wordnet
- 4 Something, such as a towel, that is used for wiping.
- 5 contact consisting of a conducting arm that rotates over a series of fixed contacts and comes to rest on an outlet wordnet
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- 6 Something, such as a windscreen wiper, that is designed for wiping.
"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."
- 7 a worker who wipes wordnet
- 8 A movable electric contact in some devices.
- 9 A program or process that erases data.
- 10 A junior role in the engine room of a ship, someone who wipes down machinery and generally keeps it clean.
- 11 An impertinent young man. obsolete, slang
"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."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From wipe + -er.
Etymology 2
From white (bass) and striper.
See also for "wiper"
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