stripes

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Paid my dues in the trenches and earned my stripes.

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V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service; "they earned their stripes in Kuwait"

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noun

V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service; "they earned their stripes in Kuwait"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for stripes.

noun

V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service; "they earned their stripes in Kuwait"

Example sentences

Paid my dues in the trenches and earned my stripes.

If you want to be the next generation spokesman than become that, but don't waste time trying to make a zebra shed his stripes.

Are you issued a new thumb?To be clear: I hate the current system of "secret numbers" embossed on plastic cards and encoded on magnetic stripes as a way of authenticating payments.

But is that going to fix temps not being treated like employees who have been there for years, or make them more likely to be hired on?I'm not saying we shouldn't all work together to make a better workplace for workers of all stripes.