Strike

  • 61strike — 1. verb /stɻaɪk/ a) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate. Please strike the last sentence. b) To hit. Strike the door sharply with your foot and see if it comes loose …

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  • 62Strike — This unusual and very interesting name is an early medieval English occupational surname for someone who was employed to maintain the accuracy of a measure of corn by passing a flat stick or strike over the rim of the vessel holding the grain,… …

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  • 63strike — 1. verb 1) the teacher struck Mary Syn: hit, slap, smack, thump, punch, beat, bang; informal clout, wallop, belt, whack, thwack, bash, clobber, bop, biff; Austral. / NZ; …

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  • 64strike — 1stri·ke s.m.inv. TS metrol. unità di misura per aridi pari a ca. 73 litri, in uso in Inghilterra {{line}} {{/line}} DATA: 1960. ETIMO: dall ingl. strike, der. di (to) strike riempire, livellare . 2stri·ke s.m.inv. ES ingl. {{wmetafile0}} TS… …

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  • 65strike — mis·strike; strike; strike·less; re·strike; …

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  • 66Strike 4 — Infobox Album | Name = Strike 4 Type = Album Artist = Acumen Nation Released = 2000 Recorded = Genre = Nu metal Length = 38:24 Label = Cracknation Producer = Lord Pickles and Kidd Knobbs Reviews = Last album = More Human Heart (1997) This album …

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  • 67strike — [OE] Strike comes from a prehistoric Germanic base which denoted ‘touch lightly’ – a sense which survived into English (‘That good horse blessed he then, and lovingly struck its mane’, Sir Ferumbras 1380). The more violent modern sense ‘hit hard’ …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 68strike — A form of industrial action involving withdrawal of labour such as to constitute a temporary breach of the employment contract. Effective strike action means preventing the use of an alternative labour force, usually through picketing the… …

    Dictionary of sociology

  • 69strike — v 1. hit, smite, thwack, slap, smack, Australian. ding; cuff, buffet, knock, punch, box, sandbag, Scot. dunt, Scot, and North. Eng. paik, Inf. clout, Inf. slug, Inf. whack, Inf. knock [s.o. s] block off, Inf. wallop, Inf. crown, Sl. conk, Dial.… …

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  • 70strike — n. a dose of drugs. (Drugs. See also hit.) □ I need a strike. You got any stumbles? □ Just one strike, Bart, come on, just one. I’ll pay you tomorrow, Bart, come on, just one little strike. Anything, Bart. I really hurt, Bart …

    Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions