Synonyms:
chevron, stripe, stripes, grade_insignia
Meaning: V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service; "they earned their stripes in Kuwait"
Usage examples
I made them of the nicest rags, and braided them in stripes.
"The stars and stripes, and a pennant!" exclaimed he, with his eye still at the tube.
Her reddish-brown colour with the tiger-like transverse stripes made an excellent disguise.
"The stripes are black and yellowish-white and run along his sides, a black stripe running down the middle of his back.
But the lad begged and prayed for himself again, and so this time too he got off with stripes; though he got as many as his skin would carry.
She is grey, modestly adorned on the thorax with two black ribbons and on the abdomen with two stripes in which white specks alternate with brown.
Sylvia was sorry that Flora was going away, but that Philip should want the palmetto flag to take the place of the Stars and Stripes over Fort Sumter seemed a much greater misfortune.
Now John's case was this: When he considered the courage of his mother, and heard her entreaty, he set about his attacks; but when he saw her beaten, and torn to pieces with the stripes, he grew feeble, and was entirely overcome by his affections.
Please remember that they never should be called Gophers, for they are not Gophers. One of the smallest members of the family is just about your size, Striped Chipmunk, and he also wears stripes, only he has more of them than you have, and they are broken up into little dots.
The men who were dancing were without clothes, but their black bodies were painted with red and white stripes, and bits of down and feathers were stuck on their skin. Some had only white stripes over the places where their bones were, which made them look like skeletons flitting before the fire, or in and out of the surrounding darkness.