striker
Americannoun
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strikers
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a person or thing that strikes.
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a worker who is on strike.
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the clapper in a clock that strikes the hours or rings an alarm.
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U.S. Army. a private who acts as a voluntary paid servant to a commissioned officer.
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U.S. Navy. an enlisted person in training for a specific technical rating.
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a person who strikes fish, whales, etc., with a spear or harpoon.
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Whaling. a harpoon.
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Soccer. one of the attacking forwards.
noun
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a person who is on strike
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the hammer in a timepiece that rings a bell or alarm
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any part in a mechanical device that strikes something, such as the firing pin of a gun
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informal soccer an attacking player, esp one who generally positions himself near his opponent's goal in the hope of scoring
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cricket the batsman who is about to play a ball
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a person who harpoons whales or fish
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the harpoon itself
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Origin of striker
1350–1400; 1840–50 striker for def. 2; Middle English; see strike, -er 1
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The striker has signed a five-year deal at the City Ground after just a year at Stamford Bridge.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Mateta also faces an uncertain future after BBC Sport's revelation on Saturday that the France striker has been arguing the final year on his Palace contract should be ruled invalid.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Fellow forward Liam Delap is also likely to leave the Blues, with a £50m fee agreed with Nottingham Forest for the striker.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Not since Dutch striker Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink left the club in 2004 have the club had a prolific striker in the number nine shirt.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
I jump and drop the flint and striker to the ground, barely keeping hold of the tinder.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
Chelsea have also signed two strikers this summer in Emmanuel Emegha from Strasbourg and Danny Welbeck from Brighton.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Earlier this summer, large crowds of protestors converged on Delaney Hall in support of the hunger strikers.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
Father Clement Thibault, Babs’s priest-mentor since childhood, is defrocked for publicly supporting the strikers after the church hierarchy forbade him from taking sides; the priest then begins a separate campaign to expose ecclesiastical misbehavior.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
His arrival would leave Chelsea with six senior strikers on their books as they look to build around Joao Pedro and Welbeck, with others available for loan or sale.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
With the money Fannie raised, the St. Louis strikers held out for two years until Marx & Haas gave in to the union.
From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell
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