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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
streaker
noun
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▪ As if we didn't have enough to think about, we also had the performance of the streaker, of course.
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streaker

n. Person who runs naked through a public place as a form of devilment.

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streaker

n. some who takes off all their clothes and runs naked through a public place

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Streaker

Streaker may refer to:

  • Someone who engages in streaking, purposely appearing and running nude in public
  • Streaker (dinghy), a sailing dinghy
  • Streaker (computer game), a 1987 computer game published by Bulldog
  • Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (tracked), a high-mobility carrier vehicle named Streaker, from the United Kingdom
  • Streaker (SpaceDev), a small launch vehicle
  • MQM-107 Streaker, a target-towing drone used by the U.S. Army and Air Force
  • The Streaker, a starship crewed by dolphins, from David Brin's Uplift Universe novels
Streaker (dinghy)

A Streaker is a type of sailing dinghy designed in 1975 by Jack Holt. It is a light (minimum weight only 48 kg) one-person boat with a uni-rig stayed sail plan. It is sailed mainly in Britain and the Philippines, and over 1800 have been built. At first all boats were built of plywood, but since 1998 fibreglass, and fibreglass variants have been used, and now over half of new boats are of fibreglass or composite (fibreglass and wood) construction.

The hull design is a dual chine hull, with little freeboard. The boat incorporates an unconventional raking daggerboard.

Streaker (video game)

Streaker is an arcade adventure game published by Mastertronic on their "Bulldog" label in 1987. The game runs on Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, MSX and Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

Streaker (rocket)

The Streaker is a rocket invented by SpaceDev. It is designed to be a low-cost launch vehicle.

Usage examples of "streaker".

There were only a few interspatial paths Streaker could have taken without using a transfer point.

Might they even be one of the species of fanatics that had ambushed the unsuspecting Streaker, and even now sought her out like hounds after a fox?

Dolphins were in command of Streaker, but the crew seemed to obey an officer more rapidly if he appeared to have the confidence of one of the patron race.

The damaged Streaker had left a noisy trail behind her when she slipped away from the confusion of the ambush at Morgran.

In a week or so, Streaker might be able to make a good accounting of herself before being destroyed or captured.

It would be nice to think something had come of all the grief Streaker and her crew had fallen into.

So long as this ship is the sole repository of information about the derelict fleet, the survey vessel Streaker remains a great prize, valued by every brand of fanatic.

But if the derelict fleet was really as important as it seemed, Streaker would have to find a way to get the information to Earth, and let wiser heads figure out what to do with it.

But on signing aboard Streaker, Toshio had expected to be treated as an adult and officer.

Of course, the same could be said of most of the crew, but experience and reputation suggested that Orley just might be able to come up with a way to get Streaker and her crew away from Kithrup before the ETs captured her.

Now they served as landing legs as the wounded Streaker lay on her side in a muddy canyon, eighty meters below the surface of an alien sea.

He had been the one person aboard Streaker who seemed younger and lonelier than she.

And in an emergency she was the only other person aboard Streaker, barring, possibly Creideiki himself, who knew about the Niss machine, or its potential value if given access to the right data.

Metz could not command him, aboard Streaker or anywhere, but he had power, power of a particularly potent kind.

Creideiki wanted to ask who would be the emissary to carry the uplift data back to Earth, while Streaker was held captive.