streamer

IPA: strˈimɝ

A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.
(journalism) A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page.
(computing) A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape; a tape drive.
(networking) Any mechanism for streaming data.
(television, Internet) A subscription service that streams content to an audience.
(Internet) A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.
(fishing) In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
(mining) One who searches for stream tin.
A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
(UK, education, in combination) A pupil belonging to a particular stream (division by perceived ability).

Examples of "streamer" in Sentences

The fun of having a fish crash upon a streamer is a rush.
He had more chases too, but as is usually the case in streamer fishing, you rarely pin them all on.
Then a second chute may have gotten damaged from the bad "streamer" parachute and the second chute didn't open all the way.
Fished with a 250 grain streamer express line with 2x to 3x tippet this fly pattern as enticed big rainbows as well as striped bass in the same water.
And since the "streamer", as i2i likes to call it, is powered by a built-in rechargeable battery, you can listen in for up to 5 hours before calling it quits.
These showers are called streamer showers, which is very light rain that doesn't get much development and usually dissipates within a few hours, said Clay Anderson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
During its 14.7-hour orbit of Saturn, Prometheus 102 kilometers, or 63 miles across reaches the point in its elliptical path, called apoapse, where it is farthest away from Saturn and closest to the F ring, and the moon's gravity is just strong enough to draw a "streamer" of material out of the core region of the F ring.