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strikee

strikee noun: the recipient of a strike, especially a physical blow; one who has been struck.

Noun

strikee (plural strikees)

  1. The recipient of a strike, especially a physical blow; one who has been struck.
    • On which the man […] putting forth his sinister bunch of fives, saluted the youngster under the ear with a blow that projected him about seven feet six inches across the street, deposited him in a place of safety in the sink, and sent the blood gushing forth, with the most fluent liberality, from...1823 July, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Monthly Magazine, volume 14, number 78, page 71
    • Each man is allowed to strike his adversary a number of blows, the recipient of the buffeting being bound by the laws of the game to stand quiescent and take what is coming to him. Then striker and strikee change places and reverse the courtesy.1910, Agnes Deans Cameron, chapter 12, in The New North, New York: Appleton, page 231

Forms of strikee

pluralstrikees

Origin of strikee

From strike + -ee.

Questions about strikee

What does strikee mean?
Strikee means the recipient of a strike, especially a physical blow; one who has been struck.
What part of speech is strikee?
Strikee is a noun.
What is the plural of strikee?
The plural of strikee is strikees.

Words near strikee in the dictionary

  1. strikebreakings
  2. strikebreaks
  3. strikebroke
  4. strikebroken
  5. striked
  6. strikee
  7. strikees
  8. strikefire
  9. strikeforce
  10. strikeforces
  11. strikeless

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