four-striper

[ fawr-strahy-per, fohr- ]

noun

1. a captain in the U.S. Navy.

Example Sentences

In a few minutes the door opened, and through it there stepped a grizzled four-striper.

From Project Gutenberg

He was decorated again and given the battlewagon of an ailing four-striper.

From Project Gutenberg

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