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Streak   /strik/   Listen
Streak

noun
1.
An unbroken series of events.  Synonym: run.  "Nicklaus had a run of birdies"
2.
A distinctive characteristic.  "A streak of wildness"
3.
A narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background.  Synonyms: bar, stripe.  "May the Stars and Stripes forever wave"
4.
A sudden flash (as of lightning).
verb
(past & past part. streaked; pres. part. streaking)
1.
Move quickly in a straight line.
2.
Run naked in a public place.
3.
Mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained.  Synonyms: blotch, mottle.



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"Streak" Quotes from Famous Books



... vacation anytime. But right now it seems to the Old Man you're on a hot selling streak. I don't want to see you get off the track, son; your interests are mine. And wait till you get your teeth into this one. Books, Ben boy. Books! People are spending all their time sitting in on Tri-deo, ...
— The Real Hard Sell • William W Stuart
... had paralysed every movement in the villain's body, but the movement of the blood. His face was like the face of a corpse. The one vestige of colour left in it was a livid purple streak which marked the course of the scar where his victim had wounded him on the cheek and neck. Speechless, breathless, motionless alike in eye and limb, it seemed as if, at the sight of Vendale, the death to which he had doomed Vendale had ...
— No Thoroughfare • Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins
... father knows WHERE he stands. He works away at those papers he brings home here at night, as if he didn't half know what he was about. He always did have that close streak in him, and I don't suppose but what he's been going into things he don't want anybody else to know about, and he's kept ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... like a streak of lightenin'; every thin' kinder slewed round, and I dropped in the first faint I ever had in my life. Next I knew Lisha was holdin' of me and cryin' fit to kill himself. I thought I was dreamin', and only had wits enough to give a sort of ...
— Work: A Story of Experience • Louisa May Alcott
... upon the party actually under her care must have been very blessed. I was not privileged to see anything further of that. But amongst those who dwelt in the deep on that ship, it was apparent that her coming had left a streak ...
— The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men" • Minnie L. Carpenter


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