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wipers

wipers is the plural of wiper.

Meaning of wiper

Noun

wiper (plural wipers)

  1. Someone who wipes.
    • So, Willy, let you and me be wipers / Of scores out with all men — especially pipers!1842, Robert Browning, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”, in Dramatic Lyrics
  2. Something, such as a towel, that is used for wiping.
  3. 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.2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times
  4. A movable electric contact in some devices.
  5. A program or process that erases data.
  6. A junior role in the engine room of a ship, someone who wipes down machinery and generally keeps it clean.

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Proper noun capitalized: Wipers

Wipers

  1. (World-War-I, slang) Ypres

Phrases with wipers

Questions about wipers

What does wipers mean?
Wipers means ypres.
What is wipers the plural of?
Wipers is the plural of wiper.
What part of speech is wipers?
Wipers is a proper noun.

Words near wipers in the dictionary

  1. wipeoffs
  2. wipeout
  3. wipeouts
  4. wiper
  5. wiperless
  6. wipers
  7. wipes
  8. wipes away
  9. wipes down
  10. wipes off
  11. wipes oneself

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wipers (page history and authors); Wipers (page history and authors); wiper (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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