Wiper

/ˈwaɪpɚ/ · noun

Meaning

Someone who wipes..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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.

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