streaking

Verb

streak (third-person singular simple present streaks, present participle streaking, simple past and past participle streaked)

1. (intransitive) To have or obtain streaks.
   • If you clean a window in direct sunlight, it will streak.
2. (intransitive) To run quickly.
   • "As it was I came a hell of a crack against a Dam' rustic arbour in the garden. Dam' near stunned me. But I never stopped a second. Up and over the back fence and streaked for the common."1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 82
3. (intransitive) To run naked in public.
   • It was a pleasant game until some guy went streaking across the field.
4. (intransitive) To move very swiftly.
   • But when we streaked through Doncaster at all but a mile-a-minute, with a miraculously clear road, in no more than 37 min. 18 sec. from the York start, I began to sit up and take notice.1949 November and December, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 365
5. (transitive) To create streaks upon.
   • You will streak a window by cleaning it in direct sunlight.

   Synonyms:

   vein

6. (Scotland, UK, obsolete) To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.

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