Wiper

Quick meaning: Wiper is a noun meaning Someone who wipes.

Meaning

Someone who wipes.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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.

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

Word Forms

• wipers

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