stripe

1 a line or long narrow section differing in color from the background the United States flag has seven red stripes Synonyms of ¹stripe band, bar, streak Words Related to ¹stripe blaze, crossbar, pinstripe

2 a number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common singers of every stripe will perform at the benefit concert Synonyms of ¹stripe breed, class, description, feather, genre, ilk, kidney, kind, like, manner, nature, order, species, strain, stripe, type, varietyWords Related to ¹stripe model; sample, specimen; bracket, bunch, category, division, family, grade, group, grouping, lot, persuasion, rank(s), set, suite

a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument the prisoner was sentenced to receive 20 stripes with a bamboo pole Synonyms of ²stripe bang, bash, bat, beat, belt, biff, bop, box, buffet, bust, chop, clap, clip, clout, crack, cuff, dab, douse [British], fillip, hack, haymaker, hit, hook, knock, larrup [dialect], lash, lick, pelt, pick, plump, poke, pound, punch, rap, slam, slap, slug, smack, smash, sock, spank, stinger, stripe, stroke, swat, swipe, switch, thud, thump, thwack, wallop, welt, whack, wham, whop (also whap)Words Related to ²stripe counter, counterblow, counterpunch, counterstroke; body blow, hand, kick, knee, left, one-two, rabbit punch, right, right-hander, roundhouse, shiver, sidewinder, sucker punch, swing, uppercut; cruncher, kayo, knockdown, knockout, KO; bastinado (or bastinade), battering, beating, bludgeoning, clobbering, cudgeling (or cudgelling), drubbing, hammering, lambasting, licking, pasting, pounding, pummeling (also pummelling), thrashing; flogging, walloping, whip, whipping

to make stripes on the children carefully striped the paper with red and blue paint Synonyms of stripe band, bar, streak Words Related to stripe blaze