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striker meaning

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    Definition of striker in English Dictionary

  • NounPLstrikersSUF-er
    1. An individual who is on strike.
      1. Someone or something that hits someone or something else.
        1. (soccer) One of the players on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals.
          1. Olympiakos had barely been in the Arsenal half but should have levelled in the 14th minute. A low corner was not dealt with and the ball fell to the feet of striker Rafik Djebbour, who saw his close-range effort brilliantly cleared from the goalline by Arteta.
        2. (military, slang) An officer's servant or orderly.
          1. "Dog-robber" has a definite significance to some army men; but unless one has spent some time in uniform he will probably have to search long for its meaning: an officer's servant or striker.
        3. (baseball, slang, 1800s) The batter.
          1. (cricket) The batsman who is currently facing the bowler and defending his wicket.
            1. (obsolete) A harpoon.
              1. (obsolete) A harpooner.
                1. Wherever we come to an anchor, we always send out our strikers, and put out hooks and lines overboard, to try fish. — Dampier.
              2. (obsolete) A wencher; a lewd man.
                1. (obsolete, politics) A blackmailer in politics.
                  1. (obsolete, politics) One whose political influence can be bought.
                  2. More Examples
                    1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
                      • The striker they bought from United was a million-pounder.
                      • The striker crossed the ball into the area and found his strike partner Jones, who headed it into the net.
                      • James Hanson, the striker who used to stack shelves in a supermarket, flashed a superb header past Shay Given from Gary Jones's corner 10 minutes after the break.
                    2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
                      • Podolski gave Walcott a chance to further embellish Arsenal's first-half performance when he eluded James Perch and slipped the ball through to the striker.
                      • "Dog-robber" has a definite significance to some army men; but unless one has spent some time in uniform he will probably have to search long for its meaning: an officer's servant or striker.
                  • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
                    1. Morphemes
                      • Suffixes
                        • Words by suffix
                          • Words suffixed with -er
                      • Nouns
                        • Countable nouns
                          • Agent nouns
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                        1. en strikers
                        2. en strikerless
                        Source: Wiktionary

                        Meaning of striker for the defined word.

                        Grammatically, this word "striker" is a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and an agent noun.
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