The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word STRIPES
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More clues leading to the result STRIPES
- Bands are rubbish aboard ship
- Undresses, having taken drug in bars
- Bands associated with stars
- Ship carrying cargo of rubbish bands
- What person in the Navy could want rubbish on board ship?
- Small bunk’s what a good soldier should be given
- They reward or punish unruly priests
- Good man’s ready to get state’s foremost recognition
- A tiger might have these priests worried
- Markings persist in varied form
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The straight part
We know that "bars" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case bars = stripes.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does STRIPES mean?
STRIPES noun- A long, relatively straight region of a single colour.
- (in the plural) The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
- Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
- A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow with a whip or stick.
- A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
- Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the spots.
- A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.
- To mark with stripes.
- To lash with a whip or strap.
- To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.