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hunger striker

hunger striker noun: a person who goes on hunger strike.

Noun

hunger striker (plural hunger strikers)

  1. A person who goes on hunger strike.
    • This measure had as its nominal justification the argument that the prison administration had to make sure that the hunger strike was going on honestly—that others in the cell weren't sneaking food to the hunger striker.1973, Aleksandr I[sayevich] Solzhenitsyn, translated by Thomas P[orter] Whitney, “Tyurzak”, in The Gulag Archipelago, 1918–1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Perennial Library), parts...

Forms of hunger striker

pluralhunger strikers

Questions about hunger striker

What does hunger striker mean?
Hunger striker means a person who goes on hunger strike.
What part of speech is hunger striker?
Hunger striker is a noun.
What is the plural of hunger striker?
The plural of hunger striker is hunger strikers.

Words near hunger striker in the dictionary

  1. hunger pangs
  2. hunger sauce
  3. hunger stone
  4. hunger stones
  5. hunger strike
  6. hunger striker
  7. hunger strikers
  8. hunger strikes
  9. hunger-pain
  10. hunger-pains
  11. hungerbitten

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