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hunger strikers

hunger strikers is the plural of hunger striker.

Meaning of hunger striker

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...

Questions about hunger strikers

What is hunger strikers the plural of?
Hunger strikers is the plural of hunger striker.

Words near hunger strikers in the dictionary

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

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