wiper
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6(noun.)
ADJ
windscreen | rear
VERB + WIPER
put on, switch on, turn on | switch off, turn off | be fitted with
WIPER + VERB
be going, be on
The windscreen wipers were on because it had started to rain heavily.
Definitions
noun
Someone who wipes.
So, Willy, let you and me be wipers / Of scores out with all men — especially pipers!
Something, such as a towel, that is used for wiping.
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.
A movable electric contact in some devices.
A program or process that erases data.
noun
A hybrid fish variety artificially bred from eggs of striped bass (Morone saxatilis) fertilized with white bass (Morone chrysops) sperm, or the opposite combination.
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
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6So, Willy, let you and me be wipers / Of scores out with all men — especially pipers!
WiktionaryUsing 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.
WiktionaryI ask you now, ain't honesty a-written on my feechurs? / I say the wiper should be scorched who'd rob his feller-creatures.
WiktionaryAs is the customary method for catching wipers at Keith Sebelius Reservoir, the trio was trolling with crank baits.
WiktionaryM. saxatilis X M. chrysops hybrids (wipers) are difficult to distinguish, showing intermediacy from parental types in basihyal tooth formation
WiktionaryWith 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 a
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