Definitions for streaks

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streaks streak

Spelling: [streek]

IPA: /strik/

Streaks is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 214 anagrams from letters in streaks (aekrsst).

Definitions for streaks

noun

1. a long, narrow mark, smear, band of color, or the like:
2. a portion or layer of something, distinguished by color or nature from the rest; a vein or stratum:
3. a vein, strain, or admixture of anything:
4. Informal. a spell or run: an uninterrupted series:
5. a flash leaving a visible line or aftereffect, as of lightning; bolt.
6. Mineralogy. the line of powder obtained by scratching a mineral or rubbing it upon a hard, rough white surface, often differing in color from the mineral in the mass, and serving as an important distinguishing character.
7. Plant Pathology. an elongated, narrow, superficial lesion on stems or leaf veins, becoming brown and necrotic. any disease characterized by such lesions.

Idioms

1. blue streak. blue streak.

verb (used with object)

1. to mark with a streak or streaks; form streaks on:
2. to lighten or color (strands of hair) for contrastive effect.
3. to dispose, arrange, smear, spread, etc., in the form of a streak or streaks:

verb (used without object)

1. to become streaked.
2. to run, go, or work rapidly.
3. to flash, as lightning.
4. to make a sudden dash in public while naked, especially as a prank.

Origin of streaks

before 1000; (noun) Middle English streke, akin to strike, Old English strica stroke, line, mark; cognate with German Strich, Gothic striks stroke, Latin strigil strig

Examples for streaks

In fact, the original Burroughs books possess a clear “green” streak that now seems quite prescient.

For many, the streak of eccentric adventure is the fun of it all.

In fact, she knew the correct answer 92 percent of the time she buzzed in during her 20-game streak.

It was clear to me that at least at the end of his life the Dionysian streak was trying to get out.

Now we'll see a ding-dong finish, if the Black doesn't show a streak of yellow.

At length she became aware of a streak of light on the119 floor.

With the first streak of day, the Doctor was up to reconnoitre the position of the enemy.

They're not senseless brutes; they have a streak of man's intelligence.

But what both men had in common was a streak of rugged individualism, stubbornness, and personal vision.

She's good enough, I guess, and she can play the piano like a streak, but she's a fool.