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upstrikes

upstrikes is the plural of upstrike.

Meaning of upstrike

Noun

upstrike (plural upstrikes)

  1. (attributive, often) A kind of early typewriter whose typebar falls back into position under gravity after typing each character, with the disadvantage that typed characters are not immediately visible.

Questions about upstrikes

What is upstrikes the plural of?
Upstrikes is the plural of upstrike.

Words near upstrikes in the dictionary

  1. upstreamward
  2. upstreamwards
  3. upstreet
  4. upstretched
  5. upstrike
  6. upstrikes
  7. upstrive
  8. upstriven
  9. upstrives
  10. upstriving
  11. upstroke

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Adapted from Wiktionary: upstrikes (page history and authors); upstrike (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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