: a usually teenage volunteer worker at a hospital
Examples of candy striper in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebIn hospitals, candy stripers are selfless volunteers.—Lesley Evans Ogden, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023 Before becoming a full-time hair aesthetician, Ahmad went to nursing school for a few years, worked as a candy striper at Mercy Hospital in Miami and spent a year working at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.—Ana Faguy, baltimoresun.com, 31 Aug. 2020 Copeland volunteered as a child, in the community, in school and as a candy striper in a hospital.—cleveland.com, 30 June 2019
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Word History
Etymology
from the striped uniform worn suggesting the stripes on some sticks of candy
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